Re: [PLUG] Speaking of Win98 -- Samba question

[LeRoy Cressy <ldc@lrcressy.com>]

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Art Alexion wrote:
> LeRoy Cressy wrote:
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> > Paul wrote:
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> > > Art Alexion wrote:
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> > > > I have never been able to get samba to work, and thought I'd give it 
> > > > another try.  I can ping the Linux machine from windows and vice 
> > > > versa, but can't get samba to work.  There are no NT, 2000 or XP 
> > > > machines, just a win98 and a win95.  Does samba require at least one 
> > > > "NT" machine?
> > >
> > > Under network properties on the Win9x boxes, make sure file sharing 
> > > and print sharing is installed and enabled.  On the Linux box, make 
> > > sure Samba (smbd) is running.  By default you should be able to see 
> > > the Samba server in Network Neighborhood.  More than likely you will 
> > > not be able to connect to a Samba share, but you should be able to 
> > > see the server.  Let's start with that.
> >
> >
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> > I have found that using swat to set up samba is a very good tool.  By 
> > default on Debian systems swat is turned off in /etc/inetd.conf thus 
> > you have to edit the file.  After you have samba working, turn swat 
> > off again.
> >
> > Start swat with your favorite browser with http://localhost:901
> ta-da!!
>
> swat worked, and I can now browse the win 9x machines using konqueror  
> and the "smb://computer-name/".
>
> ...but not vice-versa.  Linux machine does not show up in the windows 
> explorer "network" folder (nor in the network browser) just "entire 
> network" and the windows machines.  I have not defined any shares on the 
> Linux machine, but shouldn't the machine itself show up?

Check on the control pannel on the windows machine for the network settings.

Click on TCP/IP properties.  The WINS configuration shoulfd be the IP 
address of the Linux box running SAMBA.

> btw, our user names and passwords on the windows computers and the linux 
> computer are the same.  Is this good, bad or neither?
As long as the passwords are encrypted and you trust the users on the 
network it should be OK.  In a corporate setting I would not have the 
same passwords.


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