Hello,

My Linux (RH9) Samba is able to view my Win9x network shares.

My Win98 Network neighborhood displays the workgroup name of Samba 2.x (Linux RH9) but have problems accessing the share:

"LinuxGrp is not accessible.
The computer or share name could not be found. (etc.)"

I've already done placing EnablePlainTextPassword in regedit but still the same. I've also deleted or ensure that NetBEUI is not installed.

Samba (RH9) and Win98 are both under WinNT Domain and my Samba security setting is "User".


Please help!

NBJayme

could you post your smb.conf file?

hello ezral43 and others,

===== start of smb.conf =====
[global]
workgroup = linuxgrp
netbios name = rh9mobile
server string = rh9
printcap name = /etc/printcap
load printers = yes
printing = cups
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 0
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
unix password sync = Yes
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n *passwd:
pam password change = yes
obey pam restrictions = yes
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
guest ok = yes
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
dns proxy = no
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
writeable = yes
valid users = %S
create mode = 0664
directory mode = 0775
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
browseable = no
printable = yes
[nbjayme]
comment = samba sample directory
path = /tmp/samba/nbjayme
browseable = yes
writeable = yes
printable = no
guest ok = yes

======= end of smb.conf =====

nbjayme

are you using the same username/password for your win98 box as you are for samba?

hello again ezra143,

My Win98 box is logon at WinNT Server. . . .

username : ntuser password:1456

i've created a linux user on RH9 where samba is running

username : nbjayme passwordrivate01

Then using the samba server gui config i added a user:

linux user : nbjayme
windows name : ntuser
password : 1456


could it be because i did not setup any DNS or WINS?

I really a newbie on linux and Samba.

nbjayme

hello ezra143,

the smiley icon is not suppose to be there.

password : private

nbjayme

ok, from the run command in 98 try opening a share like this \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\nbjayme
where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the IP of your samba box. Let me know what this does.

hello ezra143,

" \\xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\nbjayme

The network name cannot be found."

NBJayme

hello ezra143 and others,


I've made some improvement (after reading some dozens of docs). One of the docs (DIAGNOSIS.txt) mentioned about firewall.

MY firewall was set to medium. I set it to no firewall and I was able to get in Samba Share in Win98 after a password prompt. But this would make my setup insecure because the firewall is totally off.

How do you set up the firewall then without interfering with SAMBA?


NBJayme