[techtalk] samba help

[Paul Hardacre]

At 11:39 31/05/2001, you wrote:

>Help!
>
>I'm trying to set up samba with my Windows 98 box as
>a client.  On the windoze machine I do all of the Network
>Neighborhood crud so I can see the machine.  When I
>click on it's name I get prompted for a password for
>file://SERVER/IPC$ and no matter what I enter it tells
>me "Incorrect password".  I can't find any documentation
>in the manpages on an "IPC$" resource.

IPC$ is a system share that's used for communication. Basically it's trying 
to get a list of shares.

One thing to check with Windows connecting to samba is that it uses the 
username from the Client for Microsoft Networks. This one's caught me out a 
few times. There's a file in /etc/samba that you can use to map samba users 
to unix users (if you're using the unix passwd file or possibly PAM to 
authenticate samba users), or you can go down the route of using an 
smbpasswd file, or using a PDC to authenticate users. The mapping file is 
/etc/samba/smbusers, they're in the format "unix_user = samba_user1 
samba_user2 samba_userx"

I hope that helps and makes sense..

Paul (Slightly sleepy)