Connection Problem

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Fri Feb 18 06:49:53 GMT 2000


WinNT can do that with a net use arg, but 98 doesn't have that capability.
I don't know if this helps, but you could log into any win9x machine as
mike, and then hit the share (probably not what you wanted to hear). 

Steve Litt



At 10:53 AM 02/18/2000 +1100, Darth -oo- wrote:
>I am having a problem connecting from a Windows 98 machine to my Samba UNIX 
>server. I think it has to do with the way Win 98 connects to the network. 
>Foe example in windows networking, if I am at a computer that logs on to a 
>Windows network that uses the name bill, and I try to connect to the below 
>share as Mike it fails. How can I connect to the share below anywhere I 
>happen to be?????
>
>Thanks
>
>[tmp]
>    comment = Mikes Test
>    valid users = mike
>    path = /data/mike	
>
>



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