[Samba] Re: Detecting Samba server from Windows?

[tandrew1304 at earthlink.net]

you guys are very strange sometimes :)

seriously, about 90% of peoples problems with samba on here could 
be
fixed by doing 2 things..

1.  make Windows 9x network id and password  =  unix user you 
want to log in as
2.  add  "netbios name = <NT-server-name>" in the global section 
of smb.conf

NT based kernels (XP/2000/NT) require the  "netbios name" to 
be set, 
otherwise it will not work.

security level = user,
win9x uses your login id and password in windows, to log into 
samba, NT/2000/XP
prompts you for an id and password. 

if you DON'T do this for 9x, you will have problems logging into 
IPC$
to fix this, just simply change your windows 9x id and password, 
because
basically prompting for a password to IPC$ means it cannot find 
the userid and
password you specified. NT/2000/XP prompts you for it when it 
tries to access
the server,  9x prompts you for it when you startup your computer.
just two different methods is all :)

if you do just those 2 things, you shouldn't have to modify your 
smb.conf
file AT ALL from the original defaults :)   thats what I do under 
redhat 8 and 9
and Mandrake 8 and 9, and works just fine under all platforms 
:)


-Tom-

= = = Original message = = =

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Jordan Russell wrote:

> That's not useful. For one thing, changing fstype from NTFS 
can impact
> "compatibility with Windows NT" as eluded to in the docs, and 
also,
> requiring users to modify their Samba configuration just so 
my program
> can detect Samba would defeat the whole purpose of auto-detecting 
Samba
> in the first place. I might as well just ask users to manually 
specify
> whether shares are Samba shares!

Samba servers reply to the name __SAMBA__.  this might help you.
Other than that you could add something to the server string.



cheers, jerry
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: For info see http://quantumlab.net/pine_privacy_guard/

iD8DBQE+lDm2IR7qMdg1EfYRAnCPAJ0YPB70uyKpuP6kud5HrB47XgC11ACgvWd8
yTabcDvNtRR23Mc643EzaQA=
=J/yq
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-- 
To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read 
the
instructions:  http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba


___________________________________________________________
Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software.
Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com.