General Samba Question

[Randy Kelsoe]

Bradley (FC2 List) wrote:

>I have been trying to set up my Samba service on a workgroup with 5 windows
>2000 professional boxes
>and 1 win 98 box. I can connect to the win 98 box and two of the 2000 boxes
>with no problem. On the
>other three boxes I get "The folder contents could not be displayed", "You
>do not have the permissions
>to view the contents of  (Computer Name)".  All of the windows machines are
>showing up in
>"Windows Network".
>
>  Can someone give me some advice on where to look for the difference
>between
>these connections? I have not been able to figure this one out.
>

The user policy in Win98 is not as strict as Win 2000. First, did you 
create your users on the samba server  ( smbpasswd -a username )? If you 
have the same samba user name as the user name you are logged in with on 
the Win2K machine, and the passwords are the same, it should work if you 
have a correct smb.conf file and in the smb.conf file, you have:

  encrypt passwords = yes

If this does not work after restarting smb (service smb restart), you 
might want to post your smb.conf file here (without the comments).