[NTLUG:Discuss] Windows 98 not connecting to samba shares

[Jay Urish]

Neil,
What you need to do is the win98 box's name to match an account on the
samba server. So if the account is bob on the samba server, make the
identity of the win98 box "bob"




On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Neil Aggarwal wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I setup samba on my RedHat 7.2 machine.
> I added a group for samba and added users to the samba using
> smbpasswd.
> I then added some file shares to my samba configuration.
>
> I tried to access the shares from Windows 2000 by:
> 	Load Windows Explorer
> 	Click on My Network Places
> 	Double-Click on Add Network Place
> In the location of the network place, type: \\[ServerIP]\[ShareName] and hit
> Next
> I was prompted for a user name and password to access the share.
> Everything worked fine.
>
> Not so on Windows 98.  I went to Network Neighborhood and
> double clicked on the machine name and see the shares, but
> the share asked me for the password only, not the user name.
> When I type in the password, it does not connect.
>
> I did check the value of the registry setting
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSUP\EnablePlain
> TextPassword
> and set the value to 0x00
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks,
> 	Neil.
>
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> Neil Aggarwal
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