[CentOS] Re: CentOS-Samba question

Tue Jun 3 21:30:52 UTC 2008
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

on 6-3-2008 1:00 PM MHR spake the following:
>> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:16 AM, John R Pierce <pierce-BRp9yk6zKL1Wk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> 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).
>>>
> 
> More progress:
> 
> It occurred to me that somewhere along the line I had not given my
> CentOS guest user smb access, so I ran smbpasswd and set the guest
> password to match its login password.  When I went back to W98, I
> tried to add the network printer - it recognized the name
> (\\mhrichter\MPP1100) and asked for a password.  I gave it the guest
> password, and it proceeded to try to install it.  I put in the CD,
> went through all the (right) moves to install the driver, and then the
> moment of truth:
> 
> W98 said I had to reboot.
> 
> I knew I was in trouble.  I rebooted, and, lo and behold, the printer
> was suddenly offline and unavailable (there was no change to the
> CentOS host or the printer at all).
> 
> I deleted the printer to start over, but this time W98 said the
> printer was offline when I input the name and the password.
> 
> W98 still can't see the network or any of the shares in the Network
> Neighborhood, but at least I can reach for it by name.
> 
> Any doors or windows in this wall?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> mhr
> 
> PS: I have always said that I don't really hate Window$, I just prefer
> working in and on Unix/Linux.  I don't think that's true any more,
> although I must say that of all the versions of Window$ I've ever
> used, XP is the least objectionable.
> 
Vista will raise your disappointment level back up!

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