[SWLUG] re: disheartened

[Foeh Mannay]

The mounting drives problem sounds like you haven't run smbpasswd on  
the server. 9x wasn't too bothered by this but 2000 & XP are, as unless  
you have expressly told them to do so (ISTR this may even need a  
patch), they won't downgrade their security to the use the  
authentication types older versions of windows (and vanilla samba) use.

If you can't be bothered going through Justin's recommendations, it  
would at least be worth having a look at smbpasswd. You will need to  
add a user matching your XP login and then give it a password.

As for the FTP thing, I'd agree with Justin - it appears from the tiny  
amount of information that you've provided that perhaps you are FTPing  
anonymously from IE, whereas when using a proper FTP client you may be  
trying to log in as root, which is usually disallowed since FTP sends  
passwords in the clear over the network so it's an awful security hole.

XP interoperates fine with Linux, you just need to get samba playing  
properly.

On 02/22/04 02:19:13, Rhys Sage wrote:
> 
> >What are your DNS settings on your XP box?
> >
> >Also if you ping zeus and get non reponse then try
> >its fully qualified
> >name. Is your XP box on the same DNS domain
> >
> >Terry
> 
> I've managed to get XP Pro talking to Zeus again now.
> It still won't talk properly though. All it would do
> after I set Zeus as the Windows and Workgroup
> Contrller was to send ping responses to messages from
> the XP box sent as IP and Name.
> 
> It was somewhat frustrating to find myself locked out
> by my own server. In the end, I borrowed the monitor
> and keyboard from another PC and put them on the
> server. Then I set Zeus not to be the windows and
> workgroup controller and Zeus (SME) commenced talking
> to Apollo (XP Pro) again.
> 
> However, I'm back to the same problem, namely I can
> ping and putty Zeus but can't map any networked
> drives. I can't see Zeus in My Network Places anywhere
> - not even under the workgroup entry.
> 
> I can ftp but only with Internet Explorer.
> 
> Rhys
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