Topic: Samba and 98

[Mike Daley]

Hi all:

Ok, I'm now bald from pulling my hair out over this one.  I'm sure it's something simple.

I've set up the PDF printer as outlined in the HOWTO, but when I try and use it (or anything else on our SME 5.1 server) under Win98,  it asks for a password for //SMENU/IPC$.  Of course, it doesn't exist, and as such, I cannot use any of the ibays from 98.

Any suggestions?  (SMENU is our server name)

Cheers,
Mike

[Lasse Johansson]

Mike Daley wrote:
> Ok, I'm now bald from pulling my hair out over this one.  I'm
> sure it's something simple.
It sure is...

> I've set up the PDF printer as outlined in the HOWTO, but
> when I try and use it (or anything else on our SME 5.1
> server) under Win98,  it asks for a password for
> //SMENU/IPC$.  Of course, it doesn't exist, and as such, I
> cannot use any of the ibays from 98.

Since I once wrote that HOWTO, I feel that I should be able to help you out...

From the HOWTO:

"Just make an ibay named "pdfdrop" and set the group permissions read and write to all users on your LAN"

Are you sure the permissions were set to ALL USERS???



1. Have you ever been able to connect to any ibay at all using that Win98 box?

2. If not, there surely has to do with you not using "plain text password" on your Win98. Pick up your Win98 CD, browse on it to /tools/mtsutils/ and RIGHT CLICK on the file "Ptxt_on.inf". Select "Install" in the drop down menu, reboot the box (it's a Win, remember...) and try again. If it works better now, it surely is a Samba-related issue...

3. If everything else fails, please send me your /etc.smb.conf so I can help you out....

Good luck!

[IanD]

I got caught out like this once but was only that I had logged in to the Windows box using the username set up on the SME. ..... Its just a thought. I found it before the last handfull of hair!

[Tom Belcher]

I had the same problem when I upgraded to 5.1.2 from 5.0.  With 5.0, Samba didnt care what your windows login name was on 98.  Now it does.  Make sure your windows login and password are valid user accounts on the e-smith.  This solved my problem.