[PLUG] Samba between Ubuntu and Win98

[Richard C. Steffens]

Moving on to the next issue...

I have a couple of Win98 laptops that used to be able to see the Samba 
shares on my SuSE installation. I've discovered that Ubuntu has a 
slightly different way of sharing. It looks more like sharing on XP than 
the old way. And, from XP, I can see and access the directories I have 
"shared" on my Ubuntu machine. The problem I'm having is getting to 
those directories from my Win98 machines. Win98 sees the Ubuntu machine, 
but when I try to look at the machine, I'm presented with a login 
dialog. On the Ubuntu machine, the only password I've set is for my 
regular user, and that password does not work in the dialog I see from 
Win98. Also, that dialog does not offer the option of specifying a user.

I've done some Googling and found a number of things that don't seem to 
relate. However, there was one that talked about creating a password 
using smbpasswd. What user is samba using when I try to connect from 
Win98? On my SuSE installation samba understood that rsteff was talking 
to rsteff (I have the same user name on all three machines).

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Regards,

Dick Steffens