[QUOTE]Originally posted by moonpie
[B]I can help with samba also if you need it.

 

Ahh..yes. This is more than likely due to the fact that your win98 box passes passwords in an encrypted hash, and your samba server is setup to receive them in plain text. So, it's fairly trivial to setup your samba server to use encrypted passwords. Do the following:

1) in /etc/samba/smb.conf search for the following lines and uncomment them (remove the semi-colon in the begginning of the line)
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
2) run "smbadduser unixaccount:windowsaccount" e.g. smbadduser root:bob
3) restart samba -> service smb restart

that should do the trick

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by moonpie
[B]

Ahh..yes.

 

Just had a very interesting occurance;

"directNIC" just sent me an email stating that unless I objected, the domain IFD.COM was going to be transfered to them and "michael edwards".

I can't directly "object", only approve the transfer! So, I replied and threatened legal action if they do transfer it, with a cc to my registar's support email. I have no idea who either of these people/organizations are...any ideas on how I can find out?

I thought you had to be listed under as either the domain owner or technical contact in order to change ownership, registar, or any other domain info?

 

Here is the reply I got back from the registar used by the domain highjacker:

[QUOTE][B]I understand your frustration, but that is the point to the authorization email.

 

Hey guys

OK, I got tired of fighting it and removed one of the networking cards; so now I only have the single ethernet connection which is on a static IP address so I can use the linux box as my FTP server. I can also still use it as a file server for my Macintoshes, via netatalk, because the Linux box is connected to the 100T switch which is connected to the DSL hub.

My problem is that I can't figure out how to get Samba to work in this configuration, my Windows machine can't see the linux box at all Windows machine is connected to the network in exactly the same way as the Macinosh machines: 100T connection to the 100T switch. They all connect to the network via DHCP connection to a cable modem.

So;

linux box == static IP on DSL connection
other boxes == dynamic IP on Cable connection

all boxes == 100T to 100T switch, except cable and dsl modems which are 10T to the 100T switch.

Any ideas on getting Samba to work in this setup? (the samba output status says there are no errors, if that helps).

 

wow the samba stuff was educational... actually the whole thread. One command that always helps me isolate routing problems is "route get" dns_name_ or_ ip_ address. also I thought most unix's had a option for telling dhcp that it is primary or secondary. Sun does... of course their dhcp's client generally suck. Also on a Solaris box, the primary interface is the one that matches /etc/nodename. Your problem with haveing the samba server on the nic that is connected to a non firewalled dsl is... it would seem lots of other stellar individuals on the internet would have access to it as well. Nothing like having your anonymous ftp site turn into a WAREZ site you cannot control.

 

I don't think this applies since there is no dhcp server running on the linux box. Actually, even the dhcp client is inactive now (since it's only got a static IP address now). Am I mistaken?

[QUOTE][B]Your problem with having the samba

 

I just had a thought... were you allowing the Linux box to be a router? We generally have to turn of IP_Forwarding on SUN's cause they will automatically come up as a router if there is more than one interface... had to fix a friend's server the other day, he had misspelled notrouter(a file in /etc/ that will turn off routing in solaris)... the server kept changing it's routes when it found a new path to a location. (in.rdisc was running)

 

I don't know, I didn't want the linux box to be a router at all...but I don't think I did anything either to prevent or allow it to route. How could I tell in RedHat linux?