[clug] samba password

[Darren Freeman]

You've just discovered that Win98 is crap. Sorry.

Win9x assumes that the username to connect as should be the one you
logged in as. No way to connect as a different user, AFAIK. Not even
anonymous.

So whatever user you logged into the Win98 machine as, that user should
be added to Samba with a password. You add them to smbusers as a mapping
from that name to a valid Linux user, and then use smbpasswd -a to add a
password for the Linux user.

Darren

On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 10:27, Adrian Blake wrote:
> I have Mandrake 9.0 on a machine and started samba. On the local on 
> another linux box I try to connect and get:
> 
> smbclient -L monaro-h
> added interface ip=10.12.18.55 bcast=10.12.18.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> Connection to monaro-h failed
> 
> On a win98 machine in netwotk neighbourhood clicking on the machine I am 
> requested for a password, but which password ?
> 
> Any suggestions?