Hi all,
I am a new newbie!!

I have setup a samba server running Mandrake 9.0. I have shared 1 directory, supposedly as a read-write share and am able to see the share on my Win2K system. However, I am unable to successfully mount to it. When I try to mount to it with my correct password and login, it would say "Incorrect password or unknown username".

The only way I am able to mount to it is to change the "Guest access" to YES, using "nobody" as login (logging in without typing in a user/password in this case). This is not what I want, since I only get read-only this way.

I am not sure what is going on, but I think it may have got to do with my W2K system not in a workgroup. I heard someone say that in order to have samba work with a nt network, both the linux samba system and the win2k client must be in the same workgroup. Is this true??????

Anyway, my Win2K client in this case is on my company LAN (domain based and NO workgroup) and the linux samba server is also on the same LAN but with it's own workgroup (in this case MDKGROUP). Will this configuration work if I need to use read-write share on samba as what I mentioned above?

Here is my config file, my share is called "myhome1":
# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from 0.0.0.0 (0.0.0.0)
# Date: 2003/05/24 02:05:00

# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = MDKGROUP
server string = Samba Server %v
security = SHARE
encrypt passwords = Yes
unix password sync = Yes
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
printcap name = lpstat
add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser -s /bin/false -g popusers -c "smb account %u" %u
delete user script = /usr/sbin/deluser %u
preferred master = False
domain master = False
dns proxy = No
wins support = Yes
read only = No
printing = cups

[myhome1]
comment = homeee
path = /home/pgguest
username = pgguest
write list = pgguest
hide dot files = No

[printers]
path = /tmp
printable = Yes
browseable = No

[homes]

Again... I am a newbie+dummy..

Thanks much for the help,
tkotam

On your W2K box, you will need to have a user account - and you will need to add this username and password to your linux box.

hi,
i found out that i can do tons of stuff with webmin and from there, with your suggestions (of course), i sync unix login/paswrd with samba and everything works fine now.
thanks a gazillion....