[ale] Samba problem

[Jim Lynch]

Sure, that'll work.  I believe they left that feature in Win98, even
though I use NT, Win2K 98 and sometimes 95 on a regular basis, I do get
confused sometimes on what does what where.

Thanks!

Jim.

Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> I do something similar on my wife's win95.  My approach was to simply
> mount the share and as I recall, there's an option to mount it on
> reboot, which I selected.  Now, every time her box boots win95, she's go
> the share automagically.
> 
> At boot, a dialog pops up telling you it's attempting to mount it, and
> then it goes away.
> 
> Jim Lynch wrote:
> > I'm running samba on a Linux box that I'm using as a file server on my
> > home network.  I write a little script for my wife's Win98 box that does
> > a "NET USE ..." to mount  ah, er, map a samba share and it worked great
> > when I tested it, but fails in "production".  Seems that the NET USE
> > comes up and asks for a password, but I've got guest=ok in the smb.conf
> > file and when I do a manual mapping (right click on network
> > neighborhood, map network drive, etc) it doesn't ask for a password.
> > Another funny thing.  Once I do the manual mount, then the net use works
> > fine.  I don't even have to map to the same drive and I can disconnect
> > the share (I've got those MS buzzwords down now!) before I run the
> > script and it works.
> >
> > Does anyone know what's going on or how I can fix it?  I have no idea
> > what password to use, besides, it is supposed to be automatic.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > "Confused at home",
> > Jim.
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