Benjamin J. Weiss said: >> Dear all, >> >> I want to share my /home dir with Win98SE. But i am having password >> problems. I am absolutely certain that i typed the correct password but >> i >> cannot get in. It used to work with RH7.3. [snip] It's a WAG, but did you create the samba users? Are you logging into the WIN98 machine with the same username as the samba user? > Before Windows NT, passwords were passed across the wire "in the clear", > or > non-encrypted. All M$ OS's since NT have encrypted their passwords when > passed over the wire, or at least, something that M$ claims is encryption. Which includes Win98. man smb.conf: "Note that Windows NT 4.0 SP3 and above and also Windows 98 will by default expect encrypted passwords unless a registry entry is changed." -- William Hooper
