Re: CentOS-Samba question

[Robert <kerplop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Title: politics-def

MHR wrote:

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:16 AM, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    

win9X has horrible network username habits...    you need to determine what
username its running as... dirty trick, log off, and the username should be
in the login prompt, just hit enter to relogin with the same username and
the same blank local password..   on the SAMBA server, create that username
as a linux user, AND `smbuser -a username`, assign it a smb password.   when
win98 prompts for a password, thats the username it will use, you get no
choice, and win98 should be able to 'save' that password (if you check said
box on the login prompt), which causes it to be saved to a <username>.pwd
file  (I think thats the name of the password cache).

      

More progress:

It occurred to me that somewhere along the line I had not given my
CentOS guest user smb access, so I ran smbpasswd and set the guest
password to match its login password.  When I went back to W98, I
tried to add the network printer - it recognized the name
(\\mhrichter\MPP1100) and asked for a password.  I gave it the guest
password, and it proceeded to try to install it.  I put in the CD,
went through all the (right) moves to install the driver, and then the
moment of truth:

W98 said I had to reboot.

I knew I was in trouble.  I rebooted, and, lo and behold, the printer
was suddenly offline and unavailable (there was no change to the
CentOS host or the printer at all).

I deleted the printer to start over, but this time W98 said the
printer was offline when I input the name and the password.

W98 still can't see the network or any of the shares in the Network
Neighborhood, but at least I can reach for it by name.

Any doors or windows in this wall?
  

It might be easier to give up.*

For years, I had a single inkjet printer on my modest home network, physically connected to this machine.  It works great once setup until something changes. (Versions of Windows and/or versions and/or flavors of Linux on another box.)  A while back, I added a laser printer, choosing one that could go either parallel, USB or ethernet.  I got out my crimpers, made a network cable and haven't looked back.  What a pleasure! It was a breeze to set up and it's alway visible to any computer on the network.

The point is, unless your time is virtually worthless, you might think about a print server. Netgear, D-link and Linksys all make them.  BTW, my laser printer is a Brother HL-5250 DN and I'm pretty happy with it.

Thanks.

mhr

PS: I have always said that I don't really hate Window$, I just prefer
working in and on Unix/Linux.  I don't think that's true any more,
although I must say that of all the versions of Window$ I've ever
used, XP is the least objectionable.

PPS: Yes, this is Window$ XP Pro (but I think it's still SP1), and 98
SE.  It's still Window$, a Micro$oft product, which really says it
all.
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