[Samba] Win98 asks for IPC$ password <SOLVED AND DOCUMENTED>
Steve Litt
slitt at troubleshooters.com
Thu Aug 13 17:20:11 MDT 2009
On Thursday 13 August 2009 00:20:24 Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After I converted my Linux desktop from Mandriva 2008.1 with Samba 3.0.28a
> to Ubuntu 9.04 with Samba 3.3.2, my Windows 98 box could no longer connect
> to my Linux desktop via Samba. The symptom was that Windows kept asking for
> the IPC$ password.
After John gave me the solution, I wrote an article outlining the symptom,
solution and a little theory here:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/win9x_samba.htm
Hopefully this will help some people solve it before tearing their hair out
and asking about it on the list.
Thanks for all the help.
SteveT
Steve Litt
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