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First is Samba running?
Do a "ps -e " and see if smb is running.
Next, did you setup a user when setting up Samba?
Do "smbpasswd -a UserName"
You'll be prompted for a password and you will probably reprompted to confirm the password. BEFORE you do the smbpasswd command make sure you setup the same UserName and password on the Win98 computer (this is not required but it will make it much easier). At this point you may want to restart the Samba daemon by "cd /etc/bin/" - that's if this is where it resides (I can't remember off the top of my head). When you find the "smb" daemon do "./smb restart" and this will restart Samba for you.
I'm not too sure on the steps I have provided since I haven't used Samba with Win 98, I currently only use Samba with Win XP.
Good luck and if anyone else reads this please feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
Do a "ps -e " and see if smb is running.
Next, did you setup a user when setting up Samba?
Do "smbpasswd -a UserName"
You'll be prompted for a password and you will probably reprompted to confirm the password. BEFORE you do the smbpasswd command make sure you setup the same UserName and password on the Win98 computer (this is not required but it will make it much easier). At this point you may want to restart the Samba daemon by "cd /etc/bin/" - that's if this is where it resides (I can't remember off the top of my head). When you find the "smb" daemon do "./smb restart" and this will restart Samba for you.
I'm not too sure on the steps I have provided since I haven't used Samba with Win 98, I currently only use Samba with Win XP.
Good luck and if anyone else reads this please feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
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Are u using SWAT to configure Samba? if not u should.
As far as i know u have to use the same username and password in windows as in Redhat. In swat u have to add the user (uses the user u allready have, it just adds it to Samba) and activate it also. Also make sure to set the ip address range in samba that can see the server (ie: 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 all can see it within this address range.
then just configure the shares.
Hope this helps.
Took me a while to figure it out.
And u should be able to install SWAT from the redhat disk if not installed. I highly reccommend it if ur not using it.
As far as i know u have to use the same username and password in windows as in Redhat. In swat u have to add the user (uses the user u allready have, it just adds it to Samba) and activate it also. Also make sure to set the ip address range in samba that can see the server (ie: 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0 all can see it within this address range.
then just configure the shares.
Hope this helps.
Took me a while to figure it out.
And u should be able to install SWAT from the redhat disk if not installed. I highly reccommend it if ur not using it.
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