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