On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:16 AM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
win9X has horrible network username habits... you need to determine what username its running as... dirty trick, log off, and the username should be in the login prompt, just hit enter to relogin with the same username and the same blank local password.. on the SAMBA server, create that username as a linux user, AND `smbuser -a username`, assign it a smb password. when win98 prompts for a password, thats the username it will use, you get no choice, and win98 should be able to 'save' that password (if you check said box on the login prompt), which causes it to be saved to a <username>.pwd file (I think thats the name of the password cache).
does that make sense?
Well, sort of, but we are talking about Micro$oft and Window$$$ here .... :-)
Now that I've had some rest, that's pretty much what I was going to try next.
Wish me luck!
Thanks.
mhr