On 3/16/06, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > I made another change... > > I changed the privileges on /tmp to be based on SHARE rather > than USER, and I successfully connected to /tmp. > > JMCCARTY@AMD586 Q:\NET> net use * \\presario\tmp > E: connected to \\PRESARIO\TMP. > > HUZZAH! > > Thanks all for the help. I guess that perhaps I can't use > user level control. I opened up /tmp for all users, I'll > try restricting it, and see whether passwords work. > > I hand edited /etc/samba/smb.conf to make the machine name > be PRESARIO-1, and was able to connect successfully, so > apparently the docu I read about 8 characters for MSDOS > MSCLIENT isn't correct, or I misremembered it. > > Ok, I set /tmp to be restricted to jmccarty, and used > > JMCCARTY@AMD586 Q:\NET> net use * \\presario-1\tmp ? > > and got a prompt for password, which when I entered it > allowed me in. > > So it seems to work so far. > > Now to find out how to make the MSDOS machine a server rather > than a client, and then I can make backups using the CDROM > drive on my Linux machine! > > Thanks all for your help. I appreciate each reply, the expertise, > and the time contributed. > > Special thanks go to William Hooper, Michael H. Warfield, and > Craig White, each of whom contributed key pieces of information. > > Now all I gotta do is document what I did, so I can do it again > if I need to... > > Mike > -- Please give back to the community. Once you figure it all out submit your steps to one of the Fedora FAQs.
