\\MyHostname is inaccessible???

[Christian Barth]

> Hi,
> 
>     I'm using Slackwarwe7.1 and installed samba(2.0.7). I
> configure my smb.conf file and rebooted. I have another computer
> running WindowsMe. My problem is that when i tried to acces my
> shares in my linux box from me - through the network neighborhood
> - i could see the workgroup of my linux box which is SLAK, and
> when i click it i see another blue computer icon w/ a caption
> karakus(karakus is my linux box's hostname) however when i tried
> to click karakus an error box is displayed saying: 
> 
>  
> 
>     \\Karakus is not accessible.
> 
>     No permission to access resource.
> 
> 
>     Is their something wrong with my samba configuration? I have
> attache my smb.conf file. Any help will be appreciated. Thanx!!! 
Please,
next time send your smb.conf without the comments of the example.

As far as I know WindowsMe it is similar to Win98, which uses 
encrypted passwords. Check ENTRYPTION.txt, Win95.txt, WinNT.txt in 
the docs-directory of the samba-source. Or take one of the fine books 
about samba. Baisicaly, you have to enable encrypted password in 
samba, or you apply the provieded registry-Key to allwo WinME to use 
plain text passwords. If it is a home network, not security related 
in regard to people sniffing the network traffic, you are not plannig 
an NT-domain (which uses differnt protocols than an Win98 domain), or 
you just started with samba (and may be linux) I recommend the second 
possibility.

Sure, there are a couple of other possible reasons for the error.

Christian

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