ok I'll post my suggestions at the top of this mesasage.
ome of the things you need to do iw add the ip addresses for the win9x
machines to your /etc/hosts file.
the syntax is,
ip-address, machinename alias
and ensure that samba is using encrypted passwords even though you're not
supplying passwords.
hth
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On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Hello,
> Thanks to everone who replied to my question about installing Samba last
> week. I have now managed to install it from the Redhat 7.1 CD's, and will
> install 7.2 or update from their Web site when this is working.
> The rest of the machines in our office are running Windows 98 SE. No
> password is requiredd for one machine to access another.
> Smbclient works on one of them, called "beans." If I type
> smbclient -L beans
> There is a brief wait, then it asks for a passwork. I press enter as the
> man page instructs, and get a list of things on beans, including the hard
> drive and printer. The command then terminates.
> I have tried a number of different ways to get the prompt that would allow
> smbclient to operate like ftp, but it always gives either a list or an
> error message and then terminates.
> Another machine on our network is called "welcome." smbclient always says
> that the connection failed.
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> John
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