Hello Carl: I don't have any answers for you.. simply because you are further ahead in the Samba game than I am (yet to get Swat up and running, much less smbclient).. and I've been working on this almost non-stop for close to a week now. But I can say this.. I've been working on/with computers for 15 years now, and you would never guess where I've been the most successful at fixing problems on them.... in the shower! Seems that once I pull away from it all, get my mind completely off computers for a while, I can come back to them and see things in a different light.. even re-reading the same old documents suddenly shows me something I had not seen (or thought of) before. Know also that you might need to call your Linux distribution (Red Hat, Mandrake, etc.) supplier to get the kind of immediate support you're wanting. While this mailing list is certainly worth the effort, it can be slow in responding... but your posts _are_ being read.. any by people that have been where you are now.. just like myself. Gary Fournerat Carl Fox wrote:> Would you please tell me where to get help. I'm not the ordinary > person who will ask for it and bother you just because it isn't > convenient to learn from your docs. > > I CANNOT use Samba because it fails to let me into my Linux > server which is running it from my Windows98 network neighborhood > icon. It keeps requiring a password. > > I keep doing what all the docs say to change the password. I am > root on the Linux machine, but Samba refuses IN EVERY CASE to > allow me to add or chnge passwords. I can run smbclient -L > localhost with no problem. I enter the asked for password with > no problem > > Would you PLEASE tell me where to get help. And I mean immediate > where I can pay for an answer over the phone. > > I can't tell you how pissed off I am!!! > > Carl Fox >
Would you please tell me where to get help. I'm not the ordinary person who will ask for it and bother you just because it isn't convenient to learn from your docs. I CANNOT use Samba because it fails to let me into my Linux server which is running it from my Windows98 network neighborhood icon. It keeps requiring a password. I keep doing what all the docs say to change the password. I am root on the Linux machine, but Samba refuses IN EVERY CASE to allow me to add or chnge passwords. I can run smbclient -L localhost with no problem. I enter the asked for password with no problem Would you PLEASE tell me where to get help. And I mean immediate where I can pay for an answer over the phone. I can't tell you how pissed off I am!!! Carl Fox
Carl Fox wrote:> > Would you please tell me where to get help. I'm not the ordinary > person who will ask for it and bother you just because it isn't > convenient to learn from your docs. > > I CANNOT use Samba because it fails to let me into my Linux > server which is running it from my Windows98 network neighborhood > icon. It keeps requiring a password. > > I keep doing what all the docs say to change the password. I am > root on the Linux machine, but Samba refuses IN EVERY CASE to > allow me to add or chnge passwords. I can run smbclient -L > localhost with no problem. I enter the asked for password with > no problem > > Would you PLEASE tell me where to get help. And I mean immediate > where I can pay for an answer over the phone. > > I can't tell you how pissed off I am!!! > > Carl Fox > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/sambaFirstly, a '(no subject)' e-mail will often be compleatly ignored - I only read this e-mail after reading its reply (which did have a subject). The paramater you are after is 'encrypted passwords = yes'. This allows samba to accept and advertise encrypted passwords, as required by Win95 OSR2 and above. Alternatly you can apply the registry patches to your Win98 client to make it send plain text passwords. To add accounts to smbpasswd (needed for MS Clients, used by encrypt passwords = yes) run 'smbpasswd -a {user}' it will ask for a password. You may need to create a blank smbpasswd file first (touch /etc/smbpasswd). Finally, In future provide exact copies of all relevent error messages and log file entires, as otherwise people can only take stabs in the dark. Hope this helps, Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett abartlet@pcug.org.au
On Tue, 06 Mar 2001 03:20:04 Carl Fox wrote:> > I CANNOT use Samba because it fails to let me into > my Linux server which is running it from my Windows98 > network neighborhood icon. It keeps requiring a password.Hmmm....[puts on thinking cap to fill in the lack of details provided...] I'm guessing you need to do one of two things o if using clear text passwords, then enable plain text on the Win98 client (see Win98_PlainPassword.reg included in the Samba course). You may also need to set a password level value (see smb.conf(5) for more information on this. o enable 'encrypt passwords = yes' on the Samba host and read docs/textdocs/ENCRYPTION.txt for more details If neither of these work, then give me some more details and I will responsd as much as time allows.> I can't tell you how pissed off I am!!![not directed at Carl in any way. I've just seen (and responded) to so many of these types of posts lately it seems] Why do people feel that posts like this will solicit more help? Sadly enough they invariably do, and we seem to be re-inforcing this Cheers, jerry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- /\ Gerald (Jerry) Carter Professional Services \/ http://www.valinux.com/ VA Linux Systems gcarter@valinux.com http://www.samba.org/ SAMBA Team jerry@samba.org http://www.plainjoe.org/ jerry@plainjoe.org "...a hundred billion castaways looking for a home." - Sting "Message in a Bottle" ( 1979 )