[CentOS] CentOS-Samba question

[Lanny Marcus]

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 10:29 -0700, MHR wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:16 AM, John R Pierce <pierce at 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
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