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

[Richard Geoffrion]

make sure that the username and password (the creditials) match on both the
windows box and the Linux box.  With Windows 9x/ME, one does not get
prompted for a username.  The username and password combo that is sent to
the samba server is the one used when you logged into the Windows
environment.

Of course this assumes that you have created an smbuser (or unix/smbuser
combo) on the samba box.....by whatever means you used.  (smbadduser ?  or
some other automated utility)

-Richard

----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Aggarwal" <neil at JAMMConsulting.com>
To: "NTLUG" <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 2:18 PM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Windows 98 not connecting to samba shares


> 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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