Okay, I've read and followed O'Reilly, I've read the Samba web page, I've tried Swat, I've tried numerous smb.conf settings and examples. I didn't want to post but I'm going insane! I have a linux server running Samba. I need to have numerous Win98 boxes be able to access directories on it. Honestly, it doesn't matter if people have passwors or not (yes, I know. I would prefer them, my boss doesn't mind either way...) Passwords or not, it'd help if people were plopped into respective home directories. I CAN get pcguest to work but thats it. I enable password encryption since it's Win98. The users exist on the linux box and have passwords. I use smbpasswd -a <user> to add them to the smbpasswd file- with the same password as their linux usernames and the same as their windows logon name and password. Network neighborhood can see the server just fine. However, when it prompts for a password, it ALWAYS says incorrect password no matter what. I've tried disabling encryption, setting null passwords=yes and using an account without a password... It always says incorrect password. What am I missing!?!? If anyone has a working sample smb.conf that accomplishes roughly the same thing or any tips or advice, I'd REALLY appreciate it! I've read and tried all I can think of and I'm totally stumped. Thanks! -Martha Jo --Martha Jo McCarthy mjo@marthajo.net (alternate: mjm6@keene.edu)
Do the Windows clients have their registry setting added for plain text passwords? Because Unix and Windows uses different encryption algorithms, SAMBA can only understand plain text passwords from windows. However, since Win98 & NT4, Windows only sends encrypted passwords (windows encrypted, not unix encrypted). There is a registry entry that can be set on each Windows client, to try plain text if encrypted fails. Do a search on the Microsoft Web site for it. Cheers, Nik. At 04:31 PM 2/11/01 -0500, you wrote:>Okay, I've read and followed O'Reilly, I've read the Samba web page, I've >tried >Swat, I've tried numerous smb.conf settings and examples. I didn't want to >post but I'm going insane! > >I have a linux server running Samba. I need to have numerous Win98 boxes be >able to access directories on it. Honestly, it doesn't matter if people have >passwors or not (yes, I know. I would prefer them, my boss doesn't mind >either >way...) Passwords or not, it'd help if people were plopped into >respective home >directories. > >I CAN get pcguest to work but thats it. > >I enable password encryption since it's Win98. The users exist on the linux >box and have passwords. I use smbpasswd -a <user> to add them to the >smbpasswd >file- with the same password as their linux usernames and the same as their >windows logon name and password. > >Network neighborhood can see the server just fine. However, when it prompts >for a password, it ALWAYS says incorrect password no matter what. I've tried >disabling encryption, setting null passwords=yes and using an account >without a >password... It always says incorrect password. What am I missing!?!? > >If anyone has a working sample smb.conf that accomplishes roughly the same >thing or any tips or advice, I'd REALLY appreciate it! I've read and >tried all >I can think of and I'm totally stumped. > >Thanks! > >-Martha Jo > > > >--Martha Jo McCarthy >mjo@marthajo.net (alternate: mjm6@keene.edu)================================================================NIK SANDS - Systems Administrator MailTo:Nik.Sands@utas.edu.au Information Technology Services Phone: +61-3-63243732 University of Tasmania, Australia Fax: +61-3-63243081
mjo wrote:> > Okay, I've read and followed O'Reilly, I've read the Samba web page, I've tried > Swat, I've tried numerous smb.conf settings and examples. I didn't want to > post but I'm going insane! > > I have a linux server running Samba. I need to have numerous Win98 boxes be > able to access directories on it. Honestly, it doesn't matter if people have > passwors or not (yes, I know. I would prefer them, my boss doesn't mind either > way...) Passwords or not, it'd help if people were plopped into respective home > directories.I always make samba a domain logon server, and use a logon script to map each users home directory to a local drive. (domain logons = yes, set Win98 to log into an NT domain). This requires user level authentication.> > I CAN get pcguest to work but thats it. > > I enable password encryption since it's Win98. The users exist on the linux > box and have passwords. I use smbpasswd -a <user> to add them to the smbpasswd > file- with the same password as their linux usernames and the same as their > windows logon name and password.Good so far..> > Network neighborhood can see the server just fine. However, when it prompts > for a password, it ALWAYS says incorrect password no matter what. I've tried > disabling encryption, setting null passwords=yes and using an account without a > password... It always says incorrect password. What am I missing!?!?Win98 can only handle one username at a time, the one you logged into windows with. That is why I always use domain logons, as I've never got share level security (the other way to do it) to work.> If anyone has a working sample smb.conf that accomplishes roughly the same > thing or any tips or advice, I'd REALLY appreciate it! I've read and tried all > I can think of and I'm totally stumped. > > Thanks! > > -Martha Jo > > --Martha Jo McCarthy > mjo@marthajo.net (alternate: mjm6@keene.edu)-- Andrew Bartlett abartlet@pcug.org.au