Hello: I setup samba on my RedHat 7.2 machine. I added a group for samba and added users to the samba using smbpasswd. I then added some file shares to my samba configuration. I tried to access the shares from Windows 2000 by: Load Windows Explorer Click on My Network Places Double-Click on Add Network Place In the location of the network place, type: \\[ServerIP]\[ShareName] and hit Next I was prompted for a user name and password to access the share. Everything worked fine. Not so on Windows 98. I went to Network Neighborhood and double clicked on the machine name and see the shares, but the share asked me for the password only, not the user name. When I type in the password, it does not connect. I did check the value of the registry setting HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSUP\EnablePlain TextPassword and set the value to 0x00 I am now stumped. Any ideas? Thanks, Neil. -- Neil Aggarwal JAMM Consulting, Inc. (972) 612-6056, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com Custom Internet Development Websites, Ecommerce, Java, databases
Hi Neil, On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 14:22:27 -0500 "Neil Aggarwal" <neil@JAMMConsulting.com> wrote:> I tried to access the shares from Windows 2000 by:[...]> I was prompted for a user name and password to access the share. > Everything worked fine. > > Not so on Windows 98. I went to Network Neighborhood and > double clicked on the machine name and see the shares, but > the share asked me for the password only, not the user name. > When I type in the password, it does not connect.I think this is a general Win9x problem. This OS does not have something like a 'connect as'-feature. Everytime you try to connect to a share the current username is returned to the server. Only WinNT/2000/XP have this feature to provide another username to connect with. -- jens zechlin
On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 12:11, Neil Aggarwal wrote:> Hello: > > I still cant connect. > Is there any way to get more information on the user and password that > are being suplied to the samba server?Neil, Win9x connects to shares using the username/password you supplied during logon. Thomas Klettke thomask@aesbus.com Network Administrator Aesbus Knowledge Solutions Houston, TX 77069 "The instructions said to use Windows 98 or better, so I installed RedHat."