I have a network of XP/Win98 computer and used a Ubuntu 7.10 computer to backup the shares through Samba. I recently transferred the 7.10 to another computer and upgraded to 8.04. It works but I am having problems in accessing the network.
1) I can see all the XP/98 computers
2) When I click on XP computer it does not ask for authentication, only opens blank folder, no shares. If I enter the path of the share in Nautilus then I am asked for authentication and I can browse the share. No problem, but in 7.10 it was easier.
3) Now the problem. When I click on Win 98 computer, I can see the shares all right. But some of the shares are password protected. When I click on one such, I get the authentication screen but I am just not able to authenticate. I was able to do this on 7.10 easily. If I click on a folder which is not password protected, it mounts the folder. Why does it do this, I only want to open it? In 7.10, it only opened, did not mount.

Can anyone help please, because without resolving this issue, I am stuck up as I have a number of Win98 computer with password protected shares. All was working well in 7.10.

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Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop. P4, 1400 MHz, 512 RAM
80Gb HDD with 2 partitions, 15GB (/root) and balance (/home). Extra 250Gb HDD also installed
for backups. Mainly using to backup networked windows shares automatically.

Just as a followup, I tried the command :
sudo mount -t cifs //netbiosname/sharename /media/sharename -o username=winusername,password=winpassword,iocharse t=utf8
for accessing a password protected share on Windows 98 but I got error 2 = no such file or directory. Tried smbfs option and got error 112 = host is down.
On my Win98 computer I have Windows logon setup with username=user and no password. The share is shared with password=pass with readonly access. From 7.10 Ubuntu I could mount this share with user=user and password=pass, but not able to do this on 8.04.

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Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop. P4, 1400 MHz, 512 RAM
80Gb HDD with 2 partitions, 15GB (/root) and balance (/home). Extra 250Gb HDD also installed
for backups. Mainly using to backup networked windows shares automatically.

replace netbiosname by the ip address of the machine. CIFS does not resolve names.

PC

please post the output of:

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>>I use CLI commands in my replies because anyone using any *buntu distribution can use them<<

I have installed winbind and put the wins option in nsswitch.conf file. however i tried with ip address and getting the error no 112 for cifs now and same for smbfs as well.

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Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop. P4, 1400 MHz, 512 RAM
80Gb HDD with 2 partitions, 15GB (/root) and balance (/home). Extra 250Gb HDD also installed
for backups. Mainly using to backup networked windows shares automatically.

Here it is, shows the folders / printers I have shared on Ubuntu box. It is surprisingly showing one of my XP computers, don't know why. FYI, I automount my XP and 98 shares but I have removed the 98 shares after upgrading to 98 as it is giving empty folder.

ASTRO
\\UBUNTU Ubuntu_P4_1.4GHz-512Mb-80Gb
\\UBUNTU\LaserJet_3030 LaserJet_3030
\\UBUNTU\PDF_file_generator PDF_file_generator
\\UBUNTU\IPC$ IPC Service (Ubuntu_P4_1.4GHz-512Mb-80Gb)
\\UBUNTU\Ketan
\\UBUNTU\Source
\\UBUNTU\Rajkumar
\\UBUNTU\Music
\\UBUNTU\print$ Printer Drivers
\\TESTLAB CD1.6GHz-500Mb-80Gb-IP8

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Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop. P4, 1400 MHz, 512 RAM
80Gb HDD with 2 partitions, 15GB (/root) and balance (/home). Extra 250Gb HDD also installed
for backups. Mainly using to backup networked windows shares automatically.

the win 98 computers are not showing up in your scan because your ubuntu computer and the win 98 computers are not in the same workgroup. either updated the 98 computers so they are a part of the ASTRO workgroup (preferable) or update ubuntu so it is in the same workgroup as the win 98 computers.

this is critical if you want to connect to your shares.

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>>I use CLI commands in my replies because anyone using any *buntu distribution can use them<<

All the computers are in the same workgroup called "Astro". I can see the win98 computers when I go to Places -> Network.

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Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop. P4, 1400 MHz, 512 RAM
80Gb HDD with 2 partitions, 15GB (/root) and balance (/home). Extra 250Gb HDD also installed
for backups. Mainly using to backup networked windows shares automatically.

can you ping the machine by ip address

ping <ip address>

Yes, it pings fine. I am able to see the shares from Network but cant authenticate the password protected shares as I used to be able to do on 7.10. owever XP shares are working and getting authenticated.

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Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop. P4, 1400 MHz, 512 RAM
80Gb HDD with 2 partitions, 15GB (/root) and balance (/home). Extra 250Gb HDD also installed
for backups. Mainly using to backup networked windows shares automatically.