[Samba] Windows 98 and samba

[Bill Moran]

Are you using encrypted password on Samba?
Depending on how old your Windows 95 machines are, they may not require
encrypted passwords.  Windows 98 always does (unless you apply the registry
hack, see the docs)
I believe that the encryption (or lack thereof) needs to match, server 
to client,
even if there are no passwords involved.

Richard Pyne wrote:

>I have a samba version 2.0.7 server running on Linux that has been happily 
>supplying public (guest) shares to six Windows 95 workstations for about 
>2-1/2 years. I am now trying to add two workstations running Windows 98 and I 
>can't connect to the samba server. I can see it in the Network Neighborhood, 
>but whenever I try to browse any shares it asks for a password. No matter 
>what I try, I can't get it to authenticate (even thought the shares are 
>marked as public).
>
>Any suggestions on troubleshooting will be greatly appreciated.
>
>--Richard
>