[ale] Samba problem

[Jonathan Glass]

Well, you could make your Samba server a PDC, and let your wife's
machine "log on" to the "Microsoft Network". (Read the HOWTOs for
details).

Or

You could add a "force user=<some-account>" to your wife's file share.

Or

You SHOULD be able to add a username/password combination to the net use
command (been like 3 years since I've done that, and it may have been on
WinNT and/or Win2K boxes).  Check out "net use /?" for all the command's
details.

HTH

Jonathan

On Thu, 2003-02-06 at 08:29, Geoffrey wrote:
> I do something similar on my wife's win95.  My approach was to simply 
> mount the share and as I recall, there's an option to mount it on 
> reboot, which I selected.  Now, every time her box boots win95, she's go 
> the share automagically.
> 
> At boot, a dialog pops up telling you it's attempting to mount it, and 
> then it goes away.
> 
> Jim Lynch wrote:
> > I'm running samba on a Linux box that I'm using as a file server on my
> > home network.  I write a little script for my wife's Win98 box that does
> > a "NET USE ..." to mount  ah, er, map a samba share and it worked great
> > when I tested it, but fails in "production".  Seems that the NET USE
> > comes up and asks for a password, but I've got guest=ok in the smb.conf
> > file and when I do a manual mapping (right click on network
> > neighborhood, map network drive, etc) it doesn't ask for a password. 
> > Another funny thing.  Once I do the manual mount, then the net use works
> > fine.  I don't even have to map to the same drive and I can disconnect
> > the share (I've got those MS buzzwords down now!) before I run the
> > script and it works.  
> > 
> > Does anyone know what's going on or how I can fix it?  I have no idea
> > what password to use, besides, it is supposed to be automatic.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > "Confused at home",
> > Jim.
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> The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
> Think about it...
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