[plug] samba problem

[Lyndon Kroker]

Hi Jon,

> I have samba running on a RH7.3 server and a windows 98 client.  I cannot
> get the windows client to login.  I have the following setup already:

> Issue I cannot get a ipaddress.

It looks like you may have two problems.  I would set up the Windows machine 
with a fixed IP address, even if it just temporary.  If samba is correctly 
set up and offering shares then you should be able to see them in the 
"Network Neighborhood" (even if you can't access them yet).

If you click on an offered share but cannot connect, then you might not have 
set up your samba password file correctly on the Linux box.  (Yes, this one 
cost me a few hours.)  The network passwords are send encrypted in Win98 and 
later.  You can use the smbpasswd command to add a samba user on the server.  
The sytax is:

smbpasswd [options] [username] [password]

Example:

smbpasswd -a jon jon's-password

Then make sure you "log on" to Windows with your username and password (case 
sensitive).

The samba password file is usually at /etc/samba/smbpasswd.  If I remember 
correctly, restarting smb is not mandatory after making changes to smb.conf.  
However if you want to restart samba do this (as root):

/etc/init.d/smb start

To check on how things are going type:

/etc/init.d/smb status

You should get something like:

smbd (pid 3726) is running...
nmbd (pid 2124) is running...

Hope this helps.

Lyndon