samba - Dec 2000 - WinMe - It can't be this hard?!?

I've got samba up and running on my RedHat Linux 7 box and two Windows ME
machines that need access to the Linux machine. I'm assuming it should be
simple, but I'm still having, yes you guessed it, password problems.  I read
Win95.txt and made the registry changes on my Win ME machines, that didn't
work. So then I read encription.txt and did what it said, again, no luck. I
must be doing something wrong, but I'm not sure what it is! What I'd
really
like to have is password encryption, but if I can't I'll settle for
plain
passwords, I just want access!  This is what I have in my smb.conf, does
anyone see problems with this?

[global]
workgroup = main
server string = nitewaryr
hosts allow = 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3 127.
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
guest account = guest
encrypt passwords = yes

[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = No
   writable = Yes
   read only = No

[public]
   comment = Web Directories
   path = /var/www
   public = yes
   writeable = yes
   guest ok = Yes

It isn't (see your subject line)

Have you set up your:

   /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd

file to be able to handle the encrypted passwords?

See: samba-2.0.7/docs/htmldocs/using_samba/ch06_04.html

that came with your distribution.  If not, download the 2.07 file and 
take a look?

Sorry I'm not more specific, I just find the answers, not re-type 
them!


From:           	"Joe Nelson" <nelsonj@inconnect.com>
To:             	"samba" <samba@lists.samba.org>
Subject:        	WinMe - It can't be this hard?!?
Date sent:      	Sat, 30 Dec 2000 18:33:46 -0700
> I've got samba up and running on my RedHat Linux 7 box and two Windows
ME
> machines that need access to the Linux machine. I'm assuming it should
be
> simple, but I'm still having, yes you guessed it, password problems.  I
read
> Win95.txt and made the registry changes on my Win ME machines, that
didn't
> work. So then I read encription.txt and did what it said, again, no luck. I
> must be doing something wrong, but I'm not sure what it is! What
I'd really
> like to have is password encryption, but if I can't I'll settle for
plain
> passwords, I just want access!  This is what I have in my smb.conf, does
> anyone see problems with this?
> 
> [global]
> workgroup = main
> server string = nitewaryr
> hosts allow = 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3 127.
> log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
> max log size = 50
> guest account = guest
> encrypt passwords = yes
> 
> [homes]
>    comment = Home Directories
>    browseable = No
>    writable = Yes
>    read only = No
> 
> [public]
>    comment = Web Directories
>    path = /var/www
>    public = yes
>    writeable = yes
>    guest ok = Yes
> 
> 
>