username and password when networking with windows

[Fatcharlie]

Hi All - I am not a techincal person at all - just learned things as I wnet along. Hence the gaps in my knowledge!

I have a dead (WinXP Home) laptop, Knoppix cd runs fine on the laptop and I can see my files - phew!. I have tried to network with my WinXP Pro pc but here's the snag. I keep getting asked for user name and password to access the Windows pc from the knpppix/WinXP. I have tried entering the user name and password associated with the user account on the pc but no luck. I've in fact tried all combinations of my usrnames and passwords I can think of. I am sure I have not used an unusual combination and subsequently forgotten it! I have used every valid combination I can think of but no luck.

The Knoppox laptop can see the pc when I connect up in smb://etc etc, and if I disconnect the pc it disappears out of the samba shares window. Both machines can ping the other, so I know they can see each other. Therefore I must have done something wrong, or omitted to do something. Any ideas?

By the way - I can't get the WinXP Pro pc to see the knoppix-running laptop at all - is this normal? After all the knoppix machine isn't running a windows network so I wouldn't be suprised if this were the case. However, since the WinXP Pro pc can oping the laptop, I wondered if it might be possible to ftp files - what's the protocol for this?

many thanks in advance,

fatcharlieUK

[deanlinkous]

Do you have shares setup on the winXP machine that you are trying to access?

Have you tried not entering anything for a username/password?

You may want to create a account on the windows XP box for the username you are using on the linux box - sometimes that helps.

[Fatcharlie]

thanks I'll give it a try!

[aalinuxx]

By the way - I can't get the WinXP Pro pc to see the knoppix-running laptop at all - is this normal?

try to edit /etc/smb.conf (or /etc/samba/smb.conf). There is a section that you can join your linux box in a windows networking group. and a section to define sharing method (share, user...) and a section to define shares.

try to change sharing method to share. save your file and restart samba

smb restart

i hope this would help

[Fatcharlie]

Hi Guys,

thanks again for the help. In reverse order:

The knoppix system doesn't want to allow me to change the smb.conf file - I am runnig off the cd (can't do an install, not enough space).

I have tried creating a username and password on the Windows box the same as the Linux box, tried entering nothing and have double-checked that I have set up file and printer sharing on the windows box (in fact, have shared the whole of C: drive). Still no joy.

The Windows box doesn't want to let the Linux box talk to it! Frustrating - I still can ping either way and the Linux box still sees the windows box in its samba shares.

Any more ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Fatcharlie.

[Fatcharlie]

OK, I have used the knoppix toram cheat to get knoppix onto my Windoze box. I hoped that if both machines were running knppix they'd network ok.

STILL no joy - they can ping each other but when I try to set up a network foleder it keeps sayin it can't connect and for me to check my settings - can anyone tell me how to network two knoppix machines?

Thanks,

Fatcharlie.