Re: [Sheflug] Samba & win95

["Andrew Basterfield" <nospam [at] mailandnews.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: José Luis Gómez Dans <j.l.gomez-dans [at] sheffield.ac.uk>
To: Sheflug <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Samba & win95


> On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:18:45PM +0100, Andrew Basterfield wrote:
> > This is probably really stupid and due entirely to the fact that I
haven't
> > RTFM but can someone help out?
>
> Well, there you go... :)

OK so I read some of the manual, got bored and then played Quake for a bit.

> > I have set up my Linux Samba server and WinNT has no problems but from
Win95
> > all I get is the IPC$ share (I get this when trying to access the NT PC
as
> > well). Why, and can I set Samba so it will live happily with NT & Win95
> > simultaneously?
>
> I haven't played with NT and samba, but the problem might lie in
> the passwords that each is using. I believe that some versions of NT use
> encrypted passwords, whereas others use plaintext. Win95 uses plaintext
> as far as I can remember. If this is the case, you can probably look at
> the samba logs and see authentication errors from the Win95 server (as
> samba now comes with encryption as a default, methinks...).

I edited the registry to disable encrypted passwords rather than messing
aroung generating encrypted password lists on the linux side..

> Apart from that, are you sure you have the right access rights
> for everything?

Yup.

--
If you can't do it well - learn to enjoy doing it badly

Andrew Basterfield
MEng Electronic & Communication Engineering Undergraduate
The University of Sheffield, England
Tel. 0114 222 9999 ex. 53198



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