[CS-FSLUG] Help with Samba

[Josiah Ritchie]

Somewhere in the back of my brain I have this thing that says XP
requires 'encrypt passwords = yes' in your smb.conf because it won't
play with non-encrypted. I think 98 will play with either. I've not
dealt with a mixed 98/XP environment in quite awhile. I've also not
done SAMBA outside of an AD environment in awhile.

I wonder also if you're using the correct password. IIRC, you need to
use the password on the Samba box when not authenticating to a domain
so you need to use a username and password from the linux side, not
the one on the XP machine. That's irrelevant data from the Samba
perspective. With that in mind, can you log into samba from the XP
machine using the same username and password as you use to log on from
the 98 machines.

JSR/

On 3/23/07, Eduardo Sanchez <lists at sombragris.org> wrote:
> 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:
>
> =============================================
> [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
>
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