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Hi, I'm curious to know how I can programmatically differentiate between a Samba share and a Windows NT share from a Windows program. For both, GetVolumeInformation() claims the file system is "NTFS". This isn't very helpful. I need to be able to tell the two apart because "real" NTFS supports various things Samba's "simulated" NTFS doesn't, such as

ok, I fixed the file permissions problem using chown... which is good. now, I am still having the problem in WIndows 98/Me. samba keeps prompting for a password to: //netbiosname//:IPC$ what in the heck is :IPC$???? it works fine in windows XP or 2000, so what am I doing wrong that it doesn't work in 98/Me? I tried reinstalling windows me on my daughters computer and running the windows

ok here is my smb.conf file.. its basically the default for RH8 with a few additions like writable = yes for users to be able to write to their directories and such.. this .conf file works fine in XP, its just Windows Millennium I am having problems with.. Windows Me keeps prompting for a password at: //TopGun/:IPC$ TopGun is my netbiosname.. I have no clue what IPC$ is, encrypt passwords

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