Re: Windows 98 and Samba

From: Ulf Doz (maril_manson_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/10/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 21:19:59 +0100

Marko Nurmenniemi wrote:
> Ulf Doz wrote:
>
>> tony@pcunix.com wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>> Ok, let's forget the dhcp.
>> The samba-server is not visible that's the bigger problem. Even with
>> static IPs.
>> If the cable were broken, I couldn't see the W98-machine from the
>> W2k-Notebook and the samba-server.
>>
> Probably your W2k is seeing your Win98 through the Windows networking.
> Did you say that the Redhat 9 is providing the IP's to your network?
> Can you ping the Redhat or internet from Win98? Can you ping the dhcp
> server if not Redhat?
>
> Do you have users and passwords set-up in the Win98?
> If not the Samba needs to have guest account that does not require
> password or expect authentication. Not a problem just something that
> needs to be done.
>
> In Samba make sure you are allowing browsing to the "windows" network.
> Can you access the Samba directly with "//servername(or IP)/share"
> Do you have the Samba share in a place where ALL users can atleast read?
> Note that Home directories are restricted to users in Linux but
> /home/samba can be shared to all (not by default, needs to be done
> separately).
>
> W2K is more strick about sharing it's stuff so you might need to set-up
> the same user account to the W2k machine as in 98 to provide the
> visibility to it. Not sure because I have no W2k at home but I remember
> reading about it somewhere.
>
> -Marko

Some interesting hints, I will investigate this as soon as possible. 

-- 
	Robert...

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