Samba Problem

[Turishi Malhotra]

I've got hooked up of this problem in configuring my samba server to be
seen in the network neighborhood of Windows 95/98 OS. It always asking to
supply a password for the resources IPC$.

This dialog box always bugging me to logon on my samba server

Resource : //Station12/IPC$
Password : ________________

I am using Linux 7.2 and samba version is 3.0.1 and tried with 3.0.4 also.

Hope that somebody will reply to my problem.

Thanks
Rishi

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

not enough info....


are win98/95 connected to domain?
send the smb.conf

[Turishi Malhotra]

Hi
I am using win95/98/2000 server/Xp.

Sending you the smb.conf file.
Thanks
Rishi

[Alexander Chuzhoy]

do you use domain controller to authenticate ?

Can you connect to samba server from 2000/xp?

[Matt Palmer_2]

Hi, I think its a problem with share level auth.

On older win stuff the IPC$ tries to replace the username. The work around for this is to create a user with the same credentials on the machine you are connecting from.

HTH

regards

Matt

[Martin Corona]

Rish

The problem is windows 95/98 not giving you a prompt to send a username.

You will get that IPC prompt because Windows 95/98 does not use usernames and passwords (e.g. you can cancel and be brought to your desktop without logging in).

For windows 95/98 (ONLY)

Create a username and password (make sure all is lower case).

On the samba server, create the same exact username and password.

When you attempt to mount the smb share, windows will automatically send both the username and password.

Trust me this works!!! If not, the last thing to do is add the samba server to your windows hosts file. I have seen cases where windows 98 could not find the samba server
(e.g. user types in \\sambaserver.blah.com)

Also make sure both the windows machines and samba server are in the same workgroup if you are not using samba as a PDC.

This is why I do not support win95/98 systems when attempting to connect to samba shares. win 95/98 do not give you a prompt to enter a username when trying to authenticate with the samba server

[Turishi Malhotra]

Martin

Did you checked my smb.conf.

Thanks

[Mobeen_1]

Rishi,
If you are using Win Domain controllers for authentication or estabilish trust, then you need to get with your DC admin and fix this issue.

When you install SAMBA the admin a/c on your Linux should also be created on the Win DC

I know i had this problem some time back...although not on Linux

regards
Mobeen