Hi Jose, Thank you for your reply and sorry for the long post everyone.
> 1) Are the user accounts valid. > "smbclient -L Sambabox -U Windowsuser" Have done this for all three users and there does not appear to be any error messages > is the Windows Login name (that you used on the Windows machine to log > in initially) that you have added to Samba via "smbpasswd -a Windowsuser". As far as I know, things are set up correctly for this. The password that I entered while doing "smbclient -L Sambabox -U Windowsuser" should be the same as the Linux/Windows password or am I wrong > Normally NETBIOS name to IP resolution is done by the DNS, but you probably don't have one. I had DNS set up before I broke my install and had to reinstall the O/S. I thought that I had everything set up the same way as before but that would make sense. I am stumbling around in the dark with this. How would I find out if DNS is running? I know that it is enabled in smb.comf > You must then "help" windows. There are several ways to do this... > > A) Create a HOSTS file (in the same location as your LMHOSTS or > LMHOSTS.SAM example file) which contains the IP - NETBIOS equivalences. Not sure where I would put this or what I would have to put in it. > > C) Enable the WINS component in Samba and create a local HOSTS entry, > and then point the workstations to the Samba box's IP for WINS > resolution... Have done th is except for the local hosts entry. Could you explain the "local HOSTS entry" please > Changing the hashing depth to 8 helps. This is a new term for me. > Also remember that Windows uses Encrypted passwords, when you use > SMBCLIENT locally you are sending clear text so if it works locally but > not remotely (from Windows) it's likely that you do not have encryption > set up properly... > In my smb.conf, I have encrypted password = Yes. On my Windows 98 box, I have hacked the registry to send passwords in clear text. On my W2K box I did nothing in terms of password encryption and I can still log on. If smb.conf is correct, you may be missing a crypt lib or something else > and/or too high of a security setting... Crypt.lib is a new term as well. When you say security settings do you mean security = user or the settings for Linux itself? TIA Frank McKenna Difficulties increase the closer we approach our Goals Plato ~ "It takes a minute to have a crush on someone,an hour to like someone and a day to love someone....but it takes a lifetime to forget someone." > > Bear in mind that this is different, but related to the FQDN for your > machines! > > Re: USER B > > It sounds like your login is failing, and you are falling thru to a > "Guest" share which has no rights! > > You MUST NOT get an invalid password message, if you do Samba normally > has rejected the password sent by Windows... See my other posts about > this... > > > > > -JMS
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