[Samba] XP Home and Samba? and: two network cards?

John H Terpstra jht at samba.org
Sun Nov 2 00:13:24 GMT 2003


On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Markus Vorpahl wrote:

> Dan, Don,
>
> >if you have applied the SignOrSeal registry hack, you should be
> >able to get your XP Home system to see Samba shares.  You will be
> >prompted for a user name and password to access these shares.
>
> I applied the SignOrSeal registry change manually, but still no shares.
> Until now, in smb.conf there was security = user set, so there was no domain
> logon by the WIN98 stations either. Reading the text in http://samba.kn.vutbr.cz/samba/devel/docs/html/domain-member.html:
> if I only want to share shares, files and printers, let people read and
> write, is domain logon really needed? Aparently, until now there was none.
>
> [global]
> workgroup = BAERSCH
> netbios name = server
> security = user
> os level = 65
> ...
>
> In fact, the problem might be related to the fact that the running win98
> stations are still connected to the BNC ethernet card in the server, without
> any WINS server installed, whereas I need to connect the XP stations to
> another card. Perhaps I should upgrade to 2.2.8a, and then set up a WINS
> server - any suggestions where I find documentation on this?

http://de.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf

It might help you. If not, tell us what we left out or what is not clear.
Most of it applies to Samba-2.2.x, but I'd advise you to update to
samba-3.0.x anyhow.

- John T.
-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org



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