[NTLUG:Discuss] Configuring Samba Problems

[Jay Urish]

At 10:13 AM 9/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I am trying to get Samba up and running on a new installation.
>
>I have gotten to the point where the Linux box can get through the firewall
>to the internet.  I have modified the samba.conf so it is named correctly.
>and is set up with user protections.  The name of the box is "printserver"
>I can see the server when I look at Windows 98 Network Neighborhood.
>
>I have set up the users on the Linux box, and have set up a private
>directory for each user, and a public directory for all users. Using the
>utility in gnome.
>
>I see the "printserver" with Windows 98 Network Neighborhood.  But I can't
>get access
>to the files.  I am pretty sure it is a problem with logging on from the
>windows box.  I set up a user with the same name and password on the windows
>box as the Linux box.
>
>When I double click on the printserver icon in Network Neighborhood a
>password window pops up which looks like it is trying to log into
>//printserver/ipc$ and asks for a password.   And as a result I am stuck.  I
>don't know what ipc$ is.  Is it a macro designation for the user name?  How
>do I make it the user I am logged in as?


ipc is your interprocess command.

It some cheesy windows crap. Upgrade to win2k and you can actually choose 
your login and password on a per share basis.


Anyway-- To fix your problem, try changing the computer name to match the 
user name on the samba box.



>I have tried turning off encrypted passwords, turning on encrypted passwords
>and a few other things.  Nothing seems to work.
>
>I have the Sam's "Teach yourself Samba in 24 hours" book, and have looked at
>the documentation, but I must be missing something obvious to experienced
>users, because this problem is not addressed anywhere I can find.   Since I
>am relatively new to Linux I must be missing something.
>
>Kip
>
>
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