samba installed from scratch on fc9 doesn't work for me

[Massimo Maiurana]

Massimo Maiurana, il 26/08/2008 19:20, scrisse:

> I even tried with secutity share, and this way I'm able to access the 
> share, but only with barbara's password.

even more odd: today I can't access the share neither with 
security=share and supplying the password, it returns 
NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME O_o

but maybe I know where this problem could be: yesterday I was unable 
to boot the machine, looked like it was booting but instead of 
getting the splash screen the lcd display turned to power saving 
mode so I didn't see nothing. this was with the kernel installed 
with the update, 2.6.25.14-108. after 3 attempt I tried booting the 
plain 2.6.25.14 kernel and all went fine, and smbclient "worked" 
with security=share.
today 2.6.25.14-108 booted at first attempt, but smbclient stopped 
working even with security=share.

now for some days I can't access that machine because I'm leaving 
for holydays, will see when I'll come back.

> I can't even see win98's share from fedora, nor I can mount it with 
> "mount -t cifs //greco/Ufficio2 /mnt/win98"; it says "mount error 112 = 
> Host is down", but the share name is indeed //greco/Ufficio2, and 
> "smbclient -L greco" confirms it.

I found in the web that maybe win98 doesn't support cifs filesystem, 
a lot of people has the same problem as me.
these people is however able to mount a win98 share with "-t smbfs", 
but unfortunately looks like the fedora kernel has no support for 
smbfs ("unknown filesystem type").
is there any way I could get smbfs support to be able to at least 
mount the win98 share?

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