[plug] Samba w/NT

[Bevan Broun]

on Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 02:16:33AM +0000, Greg Raftery <gregr at scs.com.au> wrote:
> Hello Folks,
> 
> Apologies if this has hit the list twice.
> 
> I have just installed NT and can't connect to my Linux gateway using
> \\hostname\hostshare. This works fine under 95, but I keep getting
> asked for a password in NT.
> 
> Does anyone have any pointers? 

Check out the documents at www.samba.org. With NT with service pack 3
and above there is a registry key that needs to be set so that it will
send plain text passwds over the net. Otherwise you need to do special
stuff with samba.

> Also, it not particularly important, but has anyone successfully got
> their Linux box to show in the network neighbourhood?

Make sure the samba machine has a lmhosts file or there is a wins server
it can talk to. There is a "browsable" setting you can make on shares.

BB
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