[NTLUG:Discuss] password for samba?

[Gregory A. Edwards]

On Sun, 09 Jan 2000, m m wrote:
> Hi All:
> I try to connect 95 box to Linux box using samba.
> when I double click my Linus box icon on 95's Network Neighborhood,
> it ask me to supply a password as following:
> 
> You must supply a password to make this connection.
> source: \\Liubx\IPC$
> password:
> 
> The other case is:
> under DOS prompt, I did
> 
> C:\>net use * \\Linux\homes
> The password is invalid for \\Linux\HOMES. For more information, contact 
> your
> network administrator.
> Type the password for \\Linux\HOMES:******
> 

As an addendum to Scott Womers' comments.  If your getting the IPC
password request something is broken in the mapping, you should not see
this one.  You need to make sure that your Win9x users have the same login
name as Linux.  Make sure your smb.conf maps users to their profile
correctly ie logon path = \\%L\%U\windows\Profiles.  Did you build you
smbpasswd file?  Check your workgroup setting.

Also if your using NIS remember to rebuild it after adding your windows
workstation to hosts or a new user.

I always use encrypted passwords so that I don't have to mess with the
windows registry cause that can also create problems that are hard to
track down.


-- 
Greg Edwards
New Age Software, Inc.
http://www.nas-inet.com