Ok, this should be nice and sweet for all of you linux experts out there. Dear good people, I am running Linux Mandrake 8.0 and I wish to connect to my Windows 2000 Professional machines using this distro of linux. I am a linux newbie, and I have already tried samba and smbmount / smbmnt to no avail. When I run smbmount, and provide the netowrk path, mount point and IP address, I am not asked for a user name / password, and I am refused a connection. For example: in a console window, I type in: smbmount //computername/resource /directory/subdir I (ip address, e.g 123.456.2.199), it returns an error similar to: connection to computername failed! The problem is this: I already have a windows 2000 username / password that i can use, and the computer name and shared resource I attempt to connect to DO exist! For some reason, samba fails to recognize this and doesn't even prompt for a login (username / password). What's even worse, I even tried including extra parameters to smbmount such as username=MyUserName password=MyPassWord Somebody pleeeease help! I know some linux guru out there can ease my pain and suffering/ Thank you for your time. By the way, is there an easy way to browse a network worgroup (windows-based) easily without using the console or mounting? thanx my email address is: shassouneh@yahoo.com

I had the same problem useing Win98 se .. and linux Slackware 2.2.19.. Pulled my hair out.. read every help file posible.. I could ftp no problem.. Telnet no problem.. but Windows File share would not work.. Then while cruising the win98 disk . I found the text based password .inf installed that puppy and she flew first try.. It seems samba will only use text based passwords.. This may help you. May not

Samba can very well use encrypted passwords, you have to set it in smb.conf. The Samba package does provide .reg files for all win versions in case you want to switch completely to plain text passwords. This is not recommended. In Samba 2.0.7 the syntax has changed a bit. You should not use smbmount or mount.smb directly. Instead use the normal mount command with the option '-t smbfs'. See: /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/textfiles/smbmount.txt