tandrew1304@earthlink.net
2003-Apr-06 15:36 UTC
[Samba] connecting to resource IPC$ problems -samba 2.2.8
hello I am running Samba 2.2.8 (latest) that I downloaded the binary from the Samba site. I have this problem in older versions of Samba as well. I have under Redhat 8.0 security level = user works fine under NT/2000/XP platforms, but when I try to login from a Windows 95/98/98se/Me machine, samba prompts me for a password to resource \\netbiosname\IPC$ how do I prevent this from happening in 95/98/se/me platforms and have it prompt the user for an id and password like it does in XP? I have about exhausted every option, I tried enabling domain master, I tried enabling wins logons, I tried enabling domain master, etc, nothing seems to have any affect :( still same problem. any ideas?? anyone? ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com.
tandrew1304@earthlink.net
2003-Apr-07 23:04 UTC
[Samba] connecting to resource IPC$ problems -samba 2.2.8
it doesn't matter to me, all I am trying to do is, I have a DSL connection to the net using a LinkSys 4 port router, I have redhat 8.0 setup as a webserver on one of the ports, all I want to do, is setup samba so that each user on my Linksys router can logon to the LAN to upload their webiste files to the webserver.. instead of using FTP. since it works fine in NT/XP, I won't mess with that, ok, I'll change Windows 9X username, are you referring to the network id and password it prompts me for at Login? yeah I can change that.. = = = Original message = =>security level = user >works fine under NT/2000/XP platforms, >but when I try to login from a Windows 95/98/98se/Me machine, >samba prompts me for a password to resource \\netbiosname\IPC$ > >how do I prevent this from happening in 95/98/se/me platforms >and have it prompt the user for an id and password like it does >in XP?The answer to your last question is: "you can't". This has nothing to do with Samba, as such: The implementation of SMB in Win9x does not allow you to "connect as" a user different from the one you're logged in as. This is completely a Win9x limitation - only the NT kernel network implementation allows the behavior you want. Realize that you ARE logging in with a username with Win9x, even if you don't see a password prompt when the system boots up: you configured the username when you first set up Win9X. The Start menu has a "Log off username" option. So, what can you do? Well, it depends on how you want to approach the problem: you have several options. You could change the Win9x user accountnames to match the network account name that you want to use. You could use the "username map" facility to map your Win9x usernames into unix/linux usernames. You could use some form of "guest" access (see the "map to guest" smb.conf parameter description). Or you could migrate all your Win9x users to Windows NT or better. ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com.