samba, fc5 win98

[tyche at ica.net]

On Wednesday 02 May 2007 10:21, Bret Stern wrote:
> It's pretty early where i'm at so ignore typos.
no problem with that. very fluent in typoese.
> I seem to recall Samba uses only eight characters
> for a password (default) Maybe your password is too long
password length is 7 characters. was working fine upto fc2.
>
> Try setting the smb.conf file, or (in x) to be a share
> only (no passwords) to see if the connection works without
> the security.
no sure how to do that. will look into it.
> If yes, then try a shorter password
>
>
> Are you able to access the server from other workstations
have no other winbased machines that have network cards. kinda hard to find 
isa network card that work.
>
> Try shutting down selinux for the smb service.
> Be sure to set your lan in selinux as a trusted device.
selinux has been disabled. should NOT be running at all.
> Keep trying
>