I downloaded and installed linneighbourhood. I used it and could browse the folders on my other windoze 2k computer, but when i try to mount ne of the shared folders i get an error mentioning "tty".

i will post if i can the exact message i got.

The guest user account may be disabled on your win2k, which will not allow access to shared folders unless you are logged in as an approved user.

Right click on mycomputer on desktop, click manage.

Look in Local Users and Groups / Users. If the guest account has an x on then right click it and click on properties. uncheck account is disabled.

Make sure your share permissions are correct.


Hope this helps you out.

with the win2k i was logged in as administrator when the error occured

It is not about who you are on the Win2k machine, but how the linux-box tries to access the files.

By default it will try no password or the guest account. So you have to either activate the guest account or make your linux log on to the win2k machine with a username/password win2k knows. Don't know how that works, though.

yeah i choose the option to scan the other computer as administrator using LinNeighbourhood and that was how i was able to actually see which files on the win2k were shared

Confusing, As stated Who you are logged in as on the win2k box is of no importance.

However the problem is most likely with Samba. Just remember the Guest account thing for troubleshooting later.

Are you using the smbmount package?

Linneighborhood is just a GUI for samba. Try getting it to work on the command line first, then use Linneighborhood.


For Windows clients to access shares on a win2k host you have to have the same network name and password as a user of the host machine with permission to the shares, or have the guest account enabled and have shares shared to everyone.

In linux you have to use samba.

Just share something read only like a temp folder with a file in it or something to everyone, and enable the guest account until you get something working. Then you can configure your shares and user permissions.


This is about smbmount...

http://us2.samba.org/samba/smbfs



This is how to logon, User name, Netbios, Workgroup, Password, etc...


http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/smbclient.1.html

thanks ill give it a go and will post the result

if i make changes to smb.conf do i need to "restart samba" so changes can take affect? if so how do i do that? can this just be done by rebooting linux? would this be the same for LILO, where if i make changes i need to "restart it" by typing /sbin/lilo?

I don't know which distrobution you ar using but you can most likele restart it like this...

/etc/init.d/samba restart

and yes yes you do need to run /sbin/lilo after making changes to lilo.conf or any changes to files in your /boot directory.

Yes, you do need to restart Samba! Have alook at my my thread:

Restarting Samba

Those are probably all the ways of getting samba to reread the smb.conf file!

Have fun!