samba: linux won't access win98 shared floppy & CD

I want my Red Hat 8 box to access my Win98 box, to read the Win98
floppy and CD drives.

The linux box can mount and read a share on NT4, and on W2K.
NT4 and W2k boxes can mount and read the shares on the W98 box.

I turned off encryption on the linux box, and did the registry hack on
the W98 box to turn off encryption.

We're on an NT domain, and the domain knows all the machines.

I use this command on the linux box as root:
mount -t smbfs -o
ro,ip=192.168.x.y,username=Administrator/domain%password
//192.168.x.y/A /mnt/w98/A

and I get the errors:
session request to 192.168.x.y failed (called name not present)
session request to 192 failed
session request to *SMBSERVER failed
SMB connection failed

The first two errors happen with NT4 and W2K boxes, but the shares do
mount.
I've tried variations of the username/domain%password option with no
effect.

I've got to be missing something on the W98 box, is all I can think.

Any insight is GREATLY appreciated! TIA Doug (E-Mail Removed)

Douglas White wrote:
> I want my Red Hat 8 box to access my Win98 box, to read the Win98
> floppy and CD drives.
>
> The linux box can mount and read a share on NT4, and on W2K.
> NT4 and W2k boxes can mount and read the shares on the W98 box.
>
> I turned off encryption on the linux box, and did the registry hack on
> the W98 box to turn off encryption.
>
> We're on an NT domain, and the domain knows all the machines.
>
> I use this command on the linux box as root:
> mount -t smbfs -o
> ro,ip=192.168.x.y,username=Administrator/domain%password
> //192.168.x.y/A /mnt/w98/A
>
> and I get the errors:
> session request to 192.168.x.y failed (called name not present)
> session request to 192 failed
> session request to *SMBSERVER failed
> SMB connection failed
>
> The first two errors happen with NT4 and W2K boxes, but the shares do
> mount.
> I've tried variations of the username/domain%password option with no
> effect.
>
> I've got to be missing something on the W98 box, is all I can think.
>
> Any insight is GREATLY appreciated! TIA Doug (E-Mail Removed)

Are the drives set on share?

Joe Hente <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed)>...
> Douglas White wrote:
> > I want my Red Hat 8 box to access my Win98 box, to read the Win98
> > floppy and CD drives.
> >
> > The linux box can mount and read a share on NT4, and on W2K.
> > NT4 and W2k boxes can mount and read the shares on the W98 box.
> >
> > I turned off encryption on the linux box, and did the registry hack on
> > the W98 box to turn off encryption.
> >
> > We're on an NT domain, and the domain knows all the machines.
> >
> > I use this command on the linux box as root:
> > mount -t smbfs -o
> > ro,ip=192.168.x.y,username=Administrator/domain%password
> > //192.168.x.y/A /mnt/w98/A
> >
> > and I get the errors:
> > session request to 192.168.x.y failed (called name not present)
> > session request to 192 failed
> > session request to *SMBSERVER failed
> > SMB connection failed
> >
> > The first two errors happen with NT4 and W2K boxes, but the shares do
> > mount.
> > I've tried variations of the username/domain%password option with no
> > effect.
> >
> > I've got to be missing something on the W98 box, is all I can think.
> >
> > Any insight is GREATLY appreciated! TIA Doug (E-Mail Removed)
>
> Are the drives set on share?

First check whether it is showin you the shares by smbclient -L ip.
Then put ip & hostanme of windows & linux machine entry in lmhosts file & try
If nothing works then enable guest account on both the machines & try