samba, fc5 win98

[tyche at ica.net]

On Wednesday 02 May 2007 14:58, Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 09:10 -0400, tyche at ica.net wrote:
> > i have an old laptop that i use as an answering machine. i am running out
> > of hd space on it. i would like too use some filespace on my fc5 server
> > for the answering machines use.
> >
> > i am unable to get the laptop to mount the smb share. win98 keeps telling
> > me the password is wrong.
> >
> > even with iptables shut down and encryption off on both machines still no
> > mounting. i can ftp files from one to the other, but can not mount the
> > shares.
> >
> > security does no good unless it allows one to do what one needs doing.
> >
> > any help would be appreciated.
>
> Windows 95 does not use encrypted passwords.  I believe that the samba
> configuration on FC3, 4, 5, and 6 default to having password encryption
> enabled.  Try digging into your /etc/samba/smb.conf file and make sure
> you have
>
> 	encrypt passwords = no
>
> set.  Then restart Samba ("service smb restart") and try it again.
>
> For the record, the following Windows systems do NOT use encrypted
> passwords:
>
> 	Windows for Workgroups (Windows 3.11)
> 	Windows 95 (without SMB update)
> 	Windows NT 3.x
> 	Windows NT 4.0 (before SP3)
>
> All others use encrypted passwords.
thanks rick, i have used the same samba config file since rh5. just wasnt 
working. got it after a lot of messing around in the config file.

thanks all

tyche