I recently upgraded my linux box, and now WinME (and 98 and OS/2) can no
longer access the password-protected shares on the linux box.  Something
with the new version of Samba, I think.  I thought I would crosspost this
here and see if anyone knew of a fix on the Windows side.
 
In particular, how do I tell ME & 98 to use the logged-on user's name,
instead of trying to use "guest" (or no userid at all)?  XP seems to work
fine, and uses the username to access the samba/linux box shares.
 
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| Which "Win9x" are you using?  I'm not sure if Win95 or OS/2
support encrypted
| passwords, so you can try disabling it on Samba (encrypt passwords = no). You
| will probably also have to reset the passwords with smbpasswd and then enable
| plaintext passwords on XP since it's disabled by default:
+-[SL=>MP]
 
Windows ME.  I believe I tried turning encrypted passwords off in samba, but I
didn't do the password reset so I may try it again.  I am pretty sure that
ME using encrypted passwords by default, though.
 
Also, I had SWAT opened up, and noticed that XP was logging on with
the user name, while ME appeared to be trying to log on using the smbguest
name.  I log onto both with a user name, so I thought that was odd.
 
The OS/2 machine can't even list the shares, so it never showed up on SWAT.
 
| You may also have share level security enabled, you should set it to user
| level (security = user).
+-[SL=>MP 04-14-09]
 
If I set it to user level, the WinME box cannot access the samba server at
all, much like the OS/2 box can't.  With it set to share level, the WinMe
box can at least access some of the shares (but not the "homes" share).
 
Mike
 


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