Shawn,
I believe that in M$Win98, you need to login as the user you have
specified in you SMB.

Try this from a DOS prompt and force the user:

net use k: \\smbservername\sharename * /USER:username

replace smbservername, sharename and username with your vals.

good luck!

--elhaddi


On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Shawn wrote:

> I changed security to user, as well as attempting to encrypt password
> and still no luck.  If I go to the top level, I get an IPC$ share
> password prompt.  If I go directly to the share, I get the share then
> password prompt.  Same as what I was experiencing previously.  I tried
> both name and IP with the same results.
> 
> The systems I've set up at work were HP-UX and Solaris systems, again on
> an NT domain.  One thing I seem to recall is that both smbd and nmbd
> need to be run with the -D option on them.  I try to do that on my Slack
> system and it won't let me run smbd.  nmbd seems to be okay on running. 
> I've looked at the syslog, messages, and dmesg with no log entries of
> what could be failing. Not seeing any logs for samba yet either.
> 
> Thanks for the help, but doesn't seem to work.
> 
> Shawn
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 20:25:34 -0500
> "Loren Burlingame" <theixian at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Well I have a similar setup and I use
> > security=user
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > encrypt passwords=yes
> > 
> > just set up the local smbpasswd file and you should be good to go.
> > 
> > also not sure if you realize that you need to log into the win98 box
> > with the username that has rights to the share.
> > either that or, IIRC, use the username map=/path/to/username-map
> > 
> > hope that helps
> > 
> > Loren
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