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HELP!!!!!!! SAMBA troubles

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Jan 10, 2001
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I have a LINUX 7 redhat system running a samba share. I can Map a drive to it via Windows 2000 but not Win 98. I am new to linux and am having big trouble. My office needs this server for several users to connect to. Unfortunatly I am the only one who can (windows 2000 is reason). Any help would be great. Also i can telnet to it via ANY machine. Just cant set up a mapped drive.
 
Are you using encrypted passwords? I know that win95 didn't require this but NT did. If you didn't use encrypted passwords with samba, you could map drives via 95 but not with NT. I'm wondering if this might be reversed with 2k and 98.

To use encrypted passwords, you'll need to enable these lines in your smb.conf file:

encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd

You can then add users and set their passwords with /usr/bin/smbadduser and /usr/bin/smbpasswd. You will want to make these usernames and passwords match the windows equivalents.

Let me know if this isn't it.
GJ
 
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