On 04/18/2009 10:02 AM, Mike Powell wrote:
> 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.

First off, check the firewall on both sides.  A block on either side 
will kill it.

I haven't tried it this way but, since Win9x doesn't use usernames by 
default, only share-level passwords, make sure Samba is set for 
share-level authentication.

> 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.

I think virtually everything uses encrypted passwords now (as long as 
the OS has been updated).

> 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.

I think that's normal but don't have experience with it.

> | 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).

Since the homes share are unique to the user, you'll have to enable them 
as world readable (I think you can do this in Samba and not change file 
system permissions).

If you can access everything as guest/smbguest, it's a username thang. 
I don't know if there's something that can be added to Win9x to pass 
that along.  Or maybe it's just been far too long since I even thought 
about such stuff, not to mention use Win9x...

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Jeff Guerdat

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