[techtalk] samba help

[James Sutherland]

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Julie 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.

What username are you logged onto the Win98 machine as? Make sure it's a
valid username for Samba, and enter that password when asked.

Take a look at your Samba logs, too - they should shed some light on the
problem?


James.