[ale] Samba Problem

[Matt Shade]

It sounds like Windows lost it's enableplaintextpassword (or whatever that's
called) registry setting, or the smb.conf 'encrypt passwords' setting has
been changed. Check those two things..there's a ton of info dealing with
Win95/98 and samba passwords.

matt shade
www.threekay.com

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Herrick" <herrickd at huntingdon.edu>
To: ale at ale.org
To: <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 11:00
Subject: [ale] Samba Problem


> I've had a postscript printer on my linux box for more than a year,
printing
> on it from my Win98 machine  worked with no problems. When I set this up I
> was brand new to Linux, but eventually got it working fine.
>
> I recently installed Internet Explorer 6 on the Win machine, all this
smooth
> functioning ceased (although this might have been a coincidence and some
> other problem happened??). Now it stopped working and from the Win machine
> it's asking me for a password for IPC$ -- I have no idea what it wants.
>
> I had been running Mandrake 7.2, but recently installed 8.1.
>
> I thought I'd start over from the Win machine installing a printer, and
> browsing the network does find the linux machine, but won't allow access
> without a password for IPC$
>
> Since it's been so long from when I did this a year or more ago, I'm not
> sure what to do now. . . .
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction?
>
>
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