I had a related problem when I converted from Win95 to Win98. Win98
does something screwey with password encryption.
I solved my problem by turning password encryption off. See the
Microsoft support page:
ttp://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q187/2/28.ASP
Hope that helps.
Tom
Joe Knapka wrote:
>
> Hi, everyone,
>
> I have a working Samba installation, but I have the
> following odd problem:
>
> On the Samba server (running Slack 3.6, Samba 2.0.6),
> I have two users corresponding to Windows network
> logins; they are called Joe (me) and Everyone (a generic
> user for wife and kids). I have assigned
> passwords to both using smbpasswd, and I have confirmed
> that both are listed in the "valid users" section of
> each share definition. I've restarted smbd and nmbd just
> to be sure. Encrypted passwords are enabled on the
> Samba side.
>
> On my wife's Win98 machine, if I log in as Joe I can
> access the Samba shares, but if I log in as Everyone
> I always get an "incorrect password" error when
> trying to "net use" the Samba shares or when browsing
> the Samba server from Net Neighborhood.
>
> Anyone know what could cause this?
>
> TIA,
>
> - Joe
>
> -- Joe Knapka
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