Re: Newbie is trying to find local devices on diskless machine

Try using root user and password in the authentication.

On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 07:33:55PM -0800, Your Name wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have recently used the PXES toolset (installed on a debian system) to 
> create the necessary images etc, to enable diskless access to a Windows 
> server 2003 using the rdesktop client. It all worked out rather well so 
> far... The current problem that I cannot work around is the fact that I 
> cannot seem to figure out how to get access to the local floppy, CD-
> ROM, printer port and sound on the diskless machines.
> 
> I am using PXES 0.7-1 for the configuration utility, where I cheked all 
> the correct boxes including the "share local devices using Samba." When 
> I login into the Windows server 2003 from the diskless machine and 
> check the network neighborhood, I can see the icon for the thin client 
> machine on the local MS network. However when I attempt to open the 
> machine to see (the presummably shared) local printer or 
> drives...nothing happens. Instead I get a "login" dialog window for the 
> thin client.?! The smb.conf on the thin client shows that the drives 
> are public and read only..
> 
> Any suggestions would be much appreciated,
> 
> Theo
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