Re: [MLUG] Using Samba to connect to Windows ME

[Rob Judd <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> >From DIAGNOSIS.txt:
>
> Run the command "smbclient //BIGSERVER/TMP". You should then be
> prompted for a password...
> If it says "bad password" then the likely causes are:
> - you have shadow passords (or some other password system) but didn't
> compile in support for them in smbd
> - your "valid users" configuration is incorrect
> - you have a mixed case password and you haven't enabled the "password
> level" option at a high enough level
> - the "path =" line in smb.conf is incorrect. Check it with testparm
> - you enabled password encryption but didn't create the SMB encrypted
> password file...
>
> Also do a 'ls -l /etc/samba/smbpasswd' and check its permissions:
> -rw-------    1 root     root          208 Jul 16 23:59 smbpasswd
>
> and do 'cat /etc/samba/smbpasswd' and check for user bubba's presence.
>
> Did you really do all the steps in DIAGNOSIS.txt?

Have some faith!  Of course I did all that.  I'm starting to get an idea
of what is wrong - Windows ME does some really weird stuff with its
accounts and it is there that it is failing.  I can connect the other way
(I got someone to try that), so the password encryption is working at
least.  It is a case of getting the correct user/password combination and
I have no idea how to work that out.  W95 is trivial in comparison.

Cheers, Rob

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