samba / switch hub /win9x

[Gregory Leblanc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: laa at ipt.pt [mailto:laa at ipt.pt]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 12:03 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> Subject: samba / switch hub /win9x
> 
> I  have a FreeBSD box with samba that works well when the 
> FreeBSDBOX and
> 
> all the win9x boxes are on the same hub.
> The problem is when i put a switch_hub between the FreeBSDbox and the
> win9x boxes. Win98  can see the samba server but they reject the
> passwords when we try to mount the remote unix drive.
> 
> With NT worksation boxes everything works fine!! (I think that NT
> implements NETBUI under TCP/IP,
> but win9x can not do this). I do not have any VLAN setup on our LAN.
> Any tip to solve this problem?

Both NT and 9x can run NetBIOS over (inside?) TCP/IP.  I'm not going to go
into NetBEUI.  Check to make sure that TCP/IP is the only protocol on those
machines, and perhaps enable the WINS server on Samba.  Although I'd expect
WINS to affect NT more than 9x.  Have you checked on encryption settings,
and things of that nature?  You might also try bumping up the logging level
a few notches and see if that turns up any useful information in the samba
logs.
	Greg