[lug] Samba connectivity question

[David Anselmi]

Mark Sweitzer wrote:
> I think that this situation is bit more complicated than a deficiency in DNS
> resolution. Whenever I've encountered a DNS problem with a Windows PC on a
> Samba network in the past, even though I couldn't access a Samba share via
> it's server name, I could always see the share by browsing to it's IP
> address "\\x.x.x.x". With these current Win98 PC's, even that doesn't work,
> so I believe I still have something mis-configured in "smb.conf" (see
> contents below) that communicates well with XP clients, but does not with 98
> clients.
> 
> I'm still seeking advice on this.

How about:

http://www.med.nyu.edu/rcr/win98NTsamba.html

and this:

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki.phtml?title=Samba_Server&printable=yes#Tips_for_using_Samba_with_Windows_98

which suggest that you need to fix 98 so it will allow plain text passwords.

Google and the Samba docs on-line should lead you to a fix even if that 
isn't the problem.

Dave