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.

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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.

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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

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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?
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> 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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