On Wednesday 17 July 2002 01:05 am, Trent Shipley wrote:
> 3) Win2K cannot browse any shares. It's username/Password combo doesn't
> work. (I suspect there are a toggle or two that I'm missing. Maybe a
> host-allow file or something too.)
I had a similar problem when I set up my Samba share. After digging through
the newsgroups, I believe I fixed the problem by adding the following three
lines into my smb.conf under the "[global]" category:
encrypt passwords = yes
security = share
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
The reasoning was that Windows 2000 _requires_ that passwords be encrypted
by default. Although you can edit the registry to change this option, it
seems better to just go along with it.
Notes:
I believe /etc/samba/smbpasswd must exist, even if it is a zero byte file.
The permissions also have to be set so that the world cannot view the file.
The "security = share" may or may not be required. It has to do with your
individual configuration, but I don't think there is any issues with
leaving it as share. This setting is recommended for "guest" shares where
no password is required.
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