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Cannot browse Windows network with Samba

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by dave.prosen

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I am running a Linux box with Mandrake 7.2 on it. I have Samba set up on the Linux box, and I all users on MS network can browse the Linux shares, and I can see the Windows network using smbclient //servername/sharename -U username.
The problem isthat I cannot get the browsing to work through the GUI on Mandrake in the KDE control center; networking; Windows shares. I can see the domain in the file manager, but I cannot get to any shares, I keep getting prompted for user credentials, which I put in, but seems to do no good whatsoever, because they just pop up again. Any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated. I am a relatively new Linux user, and really need to be able to do this task.

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by omaq

Hi have you tried EnablePlainTextPassword = 1 in the WIn machines registry ?

Regards

by dave.prosen

Thanks for the answer. Yes, I have put that in the Windows 2000 Server that I am trying to get connectivity with. I can get to the machine through the command line, it is the GUI that is the problem.

by g.j.busser

Eehhr, maybe it is a permission-problem. Are
you allowed to mount the samba-share as the
user you run X under??? Iff not, your GUI is
also not allowed ...
Also, I heard some time ago that the
plaintextpasswd stuff was fixed (not sure
tho), so,if you have the lastest and
greatest samba you may want to try disabling
plaintextpasswds again on your winbox ...

by dave.prosen

Thanks for the answer, but I can mount it, (testing everything as root). And I have the latest Samba.

by maxwell edison

With the Samba NetBIOS forwarder, nbfw, you can browse the local windows network transparently to and from your masqueraded network.

This will most likely be of use for people who have Windows machines on a backend network who want to browse the Network Neighbourhood on the 'normal' network though their masquarading firewall.

http://nbfw.sourceforge.net/

http://www.pinehead.net/articles.php?view=377

http://www.icewalk.com/softlib/app/app_00145.html

http://www.linuxheadquarters.com/howto/networking/samba.shtml

good luck

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