Re: [LUG] vmware & samba

[David Johnson <dj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Raysmith wrote:

> Selected all that and used same id and login as suggested for the network.
> it says to give a name that is recognized on the network.
>
> Now is this for the windows network. When I browse and try to browse the
> host I'm asked for a password. I give the password and it says unrecognized.
>
> I have either set up the host network wrong, the automatic vmware samba
> congif wrong or the network on the guest machine wrong.
>
> I don't know what to do about ip details of the windows side or should this
> be taken care of ?
>
> When vmware starts it show the host hetwork adaptor as running & active but
> I can't connect to it.
>
> Ray
>
>  
At a guess, I'd say that it's a conflict of Encypted/Non-encrypted 
passwords.

Your options are to either enable encrypted passwords in Samba in 
smb.conf or to disable them in Win98. You can do this in Win98 using a 
registry patch which I could probably dig out if you want to give it a go.
[does this list accept attachments?]


David.


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