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On Monday 05 August 2002 12:35 pm, you wrote:
> ok, i have been fighting this for a long time trying to get it to work.
> i have 2 machines on my home network, one is running win98 se and the
> other is running red hat 7.3. i have the samba server daemon setup on my
> linux box and can use smbclient to connect to the windows machine and
> view the files there. but here's the problem: i can see my linux box
> from network neighborhood, but when i try to connect to it, it asks for
> a password, no username and lists the resource as: \\localhost\ipc$. no
> matter what password i use, i am unable to connect. i was using webmin
> to setup samba and my smb.conf file is huge so i won't post it here.
> however, i tried the following basic smb.conf, which according to the
> documentation on the samba website should work:
Does the Win user name and the Linux name match? Many times, I found it
necessary to include
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
in the smb.conf file, and then map the Win user names to the Unix account:
# Unix_name = SMB_name1 SMB_name2 ...
nobody = guest pcguest smbguest
Mark
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