[CS-FSLUG] Help with Samba

[Eduardo Sanchez]

Dear Listfolks,

I'm having trouble with Samba. I am setting up a Dell PowerEdge SC 440  
server with Slackware 11 and Samba 3.0.x for use as a file server for a 
small network of Windows boxes. This is my smb.conf file:

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[global]
    workgroup = OFFICE 
[test] 
    comment = Invoicing system
    path = /opt/smb_share
    read only = no
    guest ok = yes
=============================================

The server serves the files to 6-7 persons. Almost all of them are Win98 
boxes, and everything is OK with them. However, there is one user. 
Let's say that this user has the following data:

Name: David Smith
Machine name: DAVID
users in machine: david (admin), smith (limited account).

I've added both david and smith as users at the Slackware box, both with 
adduser and with smbpasswd -a.

Now, at David's box, in My Network Places, we can see the SMB shared 
folder all right; but the user cannot log in. It requests password for 
the user "DAVID/david". When the user supplies his SMB/linux (and his 
XP user's) password, the login fails. The login dialog appears again 
and again.

I've read somewhere that XP often makes things difficult when the 
username is the same as the XP machine name, so I tried to log in using 
the 'smith' user. However, login as 'smith' also fails.

I will appreciate any help or tips on how can I solve this problem.

Thanks in advance, and blessings,


Eduardo