Samba - all messed up

[Bob McClure Jr]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 10:41:55PM -0600, brad.mugleston at comcast.net wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> > On 9/14/05, brad.mugleston at comcast.net <brad.mugleston at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > When things were simple (Windows 95) Samba setups were easy then
> > > Bill determined that he needed to make my life complicated.
> > >
> > > Now in my house I have some Windows 98 machines, some windows XP
> > > and even an old Win 95 laptop my daughter likes.
> > >
> > > I can print to my linus boxes and their printers but I can't seem
> > > to get everyone happy about sharing files from the Linux boxes
> > > where everything is saved.
> > >
> > > So how do I give access to Win95 through XP to my FC2 box using
> > > Samba?  I've got password encription on (I think, I've messed
> > > withit so much I'm not sure anymore)  I did that cause I couldn't
> > > see how to shut it off in the XP box.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have a quick how to set this up so everyone can play?
> > >
> > > BTW the NFS stuff is working great.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Brad Mugleston, KI0OT
> >
> > Brad,
> >    I'll only suggest that it's pretty difficult. Consider making the
> > Windows side of the house consistent in terms of Windows so that your
> > work in this area is significantly simplified.
> >
> > Good luck,
> > Mark
> >
> Mark,
> 
> Thanks - I'd like to make the windows side consistent and load
> Linux on them all BUT thats not possible at this time.  The XP
> machines are relatively new but the older machines would not
> handle XP or don't want to risk loosing what they have on them.
> 
> I'll try to move forward as best as possible.
> 
> Brad

I think what Mark means is that older Winxx defaulted to plaintext
passwords, while later ones defaulted to encrypted.  You probably need
to set your Win9x boxes to encrypt passwords.

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure at earthlink.net  http://www.bobcatos.com
Peace at any price is inflationary.