RE: Help please

[Andy Helsby <nospam [at] helsby.net>]

> 1. When I click on the linux computer's icon in the 'network
> neighbourhood' window, I get a message box echoing the linux machine's
> name and asking for a password - but I haven't set any passwords on the
> linux box other than the initial logon one. As I can't seem to find any
> relevant documentation and can't even decide whether the password it is
> looking for should be in linux, network setup or Samba, can anyone
> please offer any help?

Who are you logged on as in Windows? Create a user of the same name in the
linux box. Give it a password (preferably the same as your 95 users password.
Then hopefully 95 won't prompt you for the password, if it does, then give it
the password you just provided.

>
> 2. I don't know how to look at things on the windows box from the linux
> one. A friend in Norway suggested that I needed to use a script based on
> a command called 'smbmount' but I don't seem to have any such command
> available on my computer and there is no 'man' entry of that name.
> Again, can anyone help or point me towards relevant and understandable
> documentation please?
smbclient is probably not in the path - change to /usr/lib/samba (i think) and
it should be in there.
If not then do a more /etc/rc.samba and look for a home statement towards the
top of the file.
You then need to attach to the computer by running something like smbmount -i
//servername/share /q -I //servername -U usernameon95 -P password -S
//servername - I was doing all this myself last night for the first time and
got it working first time (suprisingly). I'm, now sitting on a customer site
with no access to my box at home so i cant reproduce the exact syntax (sorry!)

Hope this helps.

Andy

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