[Samba] Windows 98 not connecting

[Neil Aggarwal]

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?

Thanks,
	Neil.

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Neil Aggarwal
JAMM Consulting, Inc.    (972) 612-6056, http://www.JAMMConsulting.com
Custom Internet Development    Websites, Ecommerce, Java, databases


> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of Jens Zechlin
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 4:16 AM
> To: Neil Aggarwal
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Windows 98 not connecting
> 
> 
> Hi Neil,
> 
> On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 14:22:27 -0500 "Neil Aggarwal"
> <neil at 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
> 
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