Stuck on getting SAMBA working on my little LAN.

[David Rankin]

Andrew:

  *\\amiga\ipc$  Password:*  means you are having an encrypted/non-encrypted
password problem.  Samba can be configured to accept encrypted or non-encrypted
passwords or both! The IPC$ message means the Win98 machine is sending an
encrypted password and the Amiga can't read it.  There are several ways to cure
this problem.  For a full discussion see:

samba-2.0.7/docs/htmldocs/using_samba/ch06_04.html

that came with your distribution.

Andrew Bruno wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am a new person to this mailing list and hope that we can all help each
> other with the things we have learnt.
>
> So here is my Setup first:
>
>                    Amiga             PC
> *TCP stack          Genesis           W98*
> *Machine name       Amiga             586*
> *IP                 192.168.0.1       192.168.0.3*
> *Domain name        MARY              MARY*
> **
>
> I have Samba 2.0.7 and downloaded it from the Samba home page.
>
> The two machines can "see" each other and either can PING the other.  In
> both cases the HUB's LED's for the respective machine blink together.
>
> Neither is actings as a gateway onto the internet.   That is not my need at
> this time.
>
> As I have FTP server software on the Amiga, I have tested that the 586 can
> FTP to the Amiga and get files also.
>
> I have the PC's C drive shared as PC in the share setting with full access.
>
> I open the network icon on the PC and see the two machines.  However if I
> double click the Amiga's entry I get a requestor popping up:
>
> *\\amiga\ipc$  Password:*
> **
>  every time.
>
> No matter what I enter:  Wrong password.
>
> I hear the Amiga's drives doing something and although I have set the nmdb
> program (or was it smdb?) debug level to 9 (which is stated to be a full on
> debug of everything and only to be used for development) there is nowhere
> where it shows me the username or password sent to the Amiga.
>
> On the other side, getting the Amiga to see the PC drives, this is what I
> have found by editing the file in samba: which is a mount list:
>
> *Host 586:192.168.0.3 cannot be contacted!*
> *Can't get IP address from 586:192.168.0.3  (is tcp running?)!*
> **
>
> This is the mount file as that gets the above error:
>
> *Handler     = L:SMB-Handler*
> *Stacksize   = 40000*
> *Priority    = 5*
> *GlobVec     = -1*
> *Mount       = 1*
> *Startup     = "C=\\586:192.168.0.3\PC MH=AMIGA:192.168.0.1 W=MARY U=pcguest
> P=''"*
> **
>
> I was advised to append the IP numbers to the devices to help keep things
> clear.
>
> Removing the IP numbers, I get a different responce.  That being:
>
> a long pause and then
>
> *Host 586 cannot be contacted*
> **
> Now I have just noticed that it has the word HOST in there but I am not sure
> if that is important or not, so I am not going to worry about that.  I am
> hoping that one of you will help me instead.
>
> If I reverse the idea and ONLY use the IP addresses, it really gets upset.
> So I suspect that that approach doesn't work.
>
> Now, down to some settings on the PC:
>
> I do have the netbios and tcp programs and they are set correctly - I have
> been walked through it a few times.
>
> I have entered the IP number in the right places and have things set for
> file/printer sharing.
>
> I have it set to m$ networking and no WNS settings or gateway.
>
> When I first turn on the PC I get a login requestor:
>
> Name: <filled in>
>
> Passowrd: /waiting for me to enter a password/
>
> Domain: MARY
>
> I just press enter and the machine goes off "looking" for something.  It
> finally comes back with something like:
>
> I can't verify your password, some parts of the network may not be
> accessible.  Or words to that end.
>
> Can someone please tell me what is going on?
>
> It would be nice to get it working but reading the manuals for the password
> (smbpasswd.8.html included in the archive) it says to do commands that are
> NOT supported by the smbpasswd supplied so it kind of makes it difficult to
> do what is said.
>
> I kind of worked around it by not having that switch included, but it didn't
> seem to do anything anyway.
>
> There is also mention of a lmhosts file.
>
> I tried to make one of those - plain text, but it didn't seem to have any
> effect either.
>
> So if anyone out there has an Amiga networked to a PeeCee (W98) via an
> ethernet card, could you please help me?
>
> People have sent me their smb.config files but they have not helped my
> getting anything working.
>
> Cya!
> --
> How to irritate a Klingon -- put a Tribble in his shorts
>
> Andrew Bruno
> abruno at zeta.org.au