Default User Name?

Hello all, I hope you can help....

I have a home network including Win98, Win2K machines and a Linux server
running Samba.

My wife's PC runs Windows 98. She is the only user, so when I set up the
computer for her, I did not specify a user name and password. Now, when
trying to access a shared disk on Windows 2000 or Samba from her machine, a
dialog box pops up asking for a password. Not a user name, but JUST a
password.

Since we did not set up a user name on this machine at install time, what is
it using as a default? If I knew that, I could define that default user
name on the other systems and allow the disk sharing dialog to complete.

Thanks.

- Earl
(remove both x's from my e-mail address to reply via e-mail)

E Jones wrote:

> Hello all, I hope you can help....
>
> I have a home network including Win98, Win2K machines and a Linux server
> running Samba.
>
> My wife's PC runs Windows 98. She is the only user, so when I set up the
> computer for her, I did not specify a user name and password. Now, when
> trying to access a shared disk on Windows 2000 or Samba from her machine, a
> dialog box pops up asking for a password. Not a user name, but JUST a
> password.
>
> Since we did not set up a user name on this machine at install time, what is
> it using as a default? If I knew that, I could define that default user
> name on the other systems and allow the disk sharing dialog to complete.
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Earl
> (remove both x's from my e-mail address to reply via e-mail)
>
>
>
Isn't there a way to get Samba to log that information?

"CJT" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> E Jones wrote:
>
> > Hello all, I hope you can help....
> >
> > I have a home network including Win98, Win2K machines and a Linux server
> > running Samba.
> >
> > My wife's PC runs Windows 98. She is the only user, so when I set up
the
> > computer for her, I did not specify a user name and password. Now, when
> > trying to access a shared disk on Windows 2000 or Samba from her
machine, a
> > dialog box pops up asking for a password. Not a user name, but JUST a
> > password.
> >
> > Since we did not set up a user name on this machine at install time,
what is
> > it using as a default? If I knew that, I could define that default user
> > name on the other systems and allow the disk sharing dialog to complete.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > - Earl
> > (remove both x's from my e-mail address to reply via e-mail)
> >
> >
> >
> Isn't there a way to get Samba to log that information?
>

There is no "default" user name on your Win98 PC. You
entered it when you first started Windows 98. Click Start
and have a look at the item "Log off". It shows your current
user name.