| Leonard Rosenthol on Thu, 25 Oct 2001 13:55:18 -0400 |
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At 1:46 PM -0400 10/25/01, Guillermo Moyna wrote: Now, I have a Mac in my office running DAVE (which gives Mac users access to windoze networks and printers), and things work perfectly: Yes, DAVE is a great product (written by some friends of mine in Texas). Now, when you use the real deal, i.e., a windoze machine, things don't work that great. First, when you select the SAMBA server from the servers in the 'Neighborhood Network' you are not asked for a username, only a password.
By default, Windows will connect to the server using the same login name that they used on Windows (hence the reason for things like PDC's). Some versions of Windows let you ALSO specify the username, other's do not :(. Thus, you cannot get to the files. The problem is that normal users of windoze machines log in to the 'Neighborhood Network' with some stupid user name supplied by IT (something like your initials and the last four # of your SSN), which, obviously, does not match the UNIX usernames.
Does the IT department also have a PDC and/or BDC setup? What about a central directory service? If so, you should be able to bridge the two systems to match the silly IT names with the unix usernames.
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