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Jesse Benton

2004-12-25, 2:45 am

Merry Christmas to all.
I have a hopefully dumb question to ask. When trying to connect on my
home network from Linux to a windows system, the parts that I have
password shared requires a user name? I'm at a loss what to use. The
networks are up and working properly and all non password protected
partitions work fine. I've tried every user name and network name I have
put in and it still comes back invalid. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
A Nengineer

2004-12-28, 5:45 pm

Jesse Benton wrote:
> Merry Christmas to all.
> I have a hopefully dumb question to ask. When trying to connect on
> my home network from Linux to a windows system, the parts that I have
> password shared requires a user name? I'm at a loss what to use. The
> networks are up and working properly and all non password protected
> partitions work fine. I've tried every user name and network name I have
> put in and it still comes back invalid. Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks.


Not sure of your question, but have you set up passwords using smbpasswd?

Be aware that Samba passwords are "separate" from regular *nix system
passwords, or the password on your Windows client. Best thing is to make
the passwords the same on the Windows client (for XP login) as on Samba.
Jesse Benton

2004-12-29, 2:45 am

A Nengineer wrote:
> Jesse Benton wrote:
>
>
>
> Not sure of your question, but have you set up passwords using smbpasswd?
>
> Be aware that Samba passwords are "separate" from regular *nix system
> passwords, or the password on your Windows client. Best thing is to make
> the passwords the same on the Windows client (for XP login) as on Samba.

Nengineer,
Thanks for replying. I do have all the computer set up with the same
passwords. I agree if this was the problem that I would be able to smb
to one system and not another. To prove this to myself, I set up a new
folder tonight and shared it without a password and I can get in to this
folder. The problem seems to be that linux wants a user name. My windows
computers are named, new ( win95), newer ( win 98), newest ( win 98 SE)
and laptop ( win XP). Those names don't work. C, new../C ect I've tried
but unless the windows folder or device is not shared fully without a
password, I can't get to it.
This is also using 3 different version of RedHat ( 7.2, 7.3 and Fedora
2) and a version of SuSe 9.1. I am using grub to boot to these. Being a
home network I do not have any of these set up to be a server or client.
All system can see each other it is just the login ( user name) and
password part I can't get passed.
I think I'm still missing something simple. Thanks for any help
DaveinSidney

2004-12-30, 2:45 am

Jesse Benton wrote:
> Nengineer,
> Thanks for replying. I do have all the computer set up with the same
> passwords. I agree if this was the problem that I would be able to smb
> to one system and not another. To prove this to myself, I set up a new
> folder tonight and shared it without a password and I can get in to this
> folder. The problem seems to be that linux wants a user name. My windows
> computers are named, new ( win95), newer ( win 98), newest ( win 98 SE)
> and laptop ( win XP). Those names don't work. C, new../C ect I've tried
> but unless the windows folder or device is not shared fully without a
> password, I can't get to it.


Do you have users with password set up on each of these Windows machines?
--
Invert name and ISP to reply.
Jesse Benton

2005-01-01, 2:45 am


> Do you have users with password set up on each of these Windows machines?

Yes, But trying their names doesn't let me login either
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