[Samba] Win98 client can't connect after Samba upgrade

[Deyan Stoykov]

smb23wc at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi All,  I was running Samba 2.2 as a PDC for a small office server for 
> several years.  Hardware was getting old enough I finally bit the bullet 
> and upgraded to Samba 3.3.4 on FreeBSD 7.2 and a new box.
> 
> The smbpasswd file and all that stuff was copied from the old box.  
> Clients are Win2000 and XP Professional, and for the most part were back 
> up and connected, practically unaware of the switch over.
> 
> After a couple of weeks of thinking "that was too easy" I got a call 
> that one PC wasn't working.  It's an old Windows 98 pc only used 
> occasionally.  I tried recreating the machine account for it, and 
> rejoining the domain, to no avail.  Any suggestions where to start with 
> this one?
> 
> -RW

You need to add:

lanman auth = yes

The default value was changed from "yes" to "no" in recent versions.

HTH,

Deyan

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Deyan Stoykov, dstoykov at ru.acad.bg
University of Rousse, BG-7017