[CS-FSLUG] Help with Samba

[Eduardo Sanchez]

Josiah: Thanks. Yes, I added the "encrypt passwords" thing and yes, the 
user/password combination is that of the Samba server. Yet, there is no 
login.

Thanks anyway,


Eduardo

On Friday 23 March 2007 17:22, Josiah Ritchie wrote:
> 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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