[Samba] Win98 asks for IPC$ password <SOLVED AND DOCUMENTED>

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 07:20:11PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> 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.

This is a great write-up - thanks ! Can I use a link to it
in the next Samba Team blog entry ?

Jeremy.