im running a small lan and considering mandrake oner 2k/nt4 server for a file server. but am having problems getting them to talk.
i have a win2k box currently with 3 80gbs of data.
i have a laptop with mandrake 9 , and allmost all of the packages installed.. i think i checked way to much stuff..
any way got in useing webmin to configure samba.
win2k box seees laptop on network.. pulls up a user/password box.. tried the local acoutn i had made on the laptop.. nada.. i tried root.. nada..
i went back to webmin, created a user with same name as what i was logging into windows box with no password. made sure that samba imported unix accounts etc. all seems well. i can smb://compname/share and pull up folders.. but never see any files. on windoze box i keep gettin the user/pass box. i can vnc back and forth, i can set up ftp server on win box and get in fromn laptop. just not standar "network neighborhood" junk.
i heard there was a problem with 2k sp2.. ldap.. like it uses encrypted passowrds that samba dont understand.
anyway does samba talk to win2k/xp? and vice/versa?
ps.. its to the point i might set up a baby ntserver just to handle a domain .. do dmain account validaiont.. that shoouuld tke care of the user/pass prob.