From skwarzkopf at yahoo.com Sun Jan 6 10:35:28 2002 From: skwarzkopf at yahoo.com (Snyder Skwarzkopf) Date: Fri Feb 13 23:41:26 2004 Subject: help Message-ID: <20020106103528.31934.qmail@web20401.mail.yahoo.com> I have setup samba on a Mandrake 8.1 Server and i wanted to access the shared directory from a Windows 98 client. Why is it that it will prompt for a password when i tried accessing the shared resource? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ From websurfer at navegants.com Sat Jan 12 02:01:28 2002 From: websurfer at navegants.com (Josep M.) Date: Fri Feb 13 23:41:26 2004 Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20020112010120.04e0e808@172.26.0.4> From davecb at canada.sun.com Mon Jan 21 20:39:27 2002 From: davecb at canada.sun.com (David Collier-Brown) Date: Fri Feb 13 23:41:26 2004 Subject: Sidebar re WINS reccomendation (was Re: Unexpected behavior) References: <3C4C676F.6254EF9E@gibbons.com> <3C4C755A.473AC38@canada.sun.com> <3C4C7A8F.A3194FD5@gibbons.com> Message-ID: <3C4C7C7F.4A7265FD@canada.sun.com> bao wrote: > > The smb.conf man page says that "you should not set [wins support] to true > unless you have a multi-subnetted network and you wish a particular nmbd to be > your WINS server." This paragraph should be changed to encourage use of wins rather than shout-and-hope. I suggest dropping the doubtfull advice entirely: ---- nmbd(8) process in Samba will act as a WINS server. You should set this to true if you wish nmbd to be your WINS server. -- --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify Performance & Engineering | some people and astonish the rest. Americas Customer Engineering, | -- Mark Twain (905) 415-2849 | davecb@canada.sun.com