[Accidentally sent this to Gaiseric. Oops] On Wednesday 13 October 2010, Gaiseric Vandal elucidated thus: > Do you have an account (or accounts) for on the samba server for the > Windows user(s)?
The account names are the same on the server and in the domain. > Are the passwords the same? No. Their domain password is not the same as their system password. > Does the samba server "workgroup" name match the domain name on the > windows clients? No. > Can you use the "username map" option in smb.conf and have a username > map file that maps "DOMAIN/user" to "user" ? Had not tried that, But neither OUR_DOMAIN\jkugler nor OUR_DOMAIN/jkugler allows me to log in from the Windows 7 system, so I'm not sure what's up there. As I mentioned, using net use w: \\server_name * /USER:<user_name> works just fine. j > > On 10/12/2010 06:45 PM, Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > I've googled and read, and haven't run across any solutions to this > > problem. Yes, I know about the "Network Security: LAN Manager > > authentication level" change, but, as you will see, this isn't the > > issue. > > > > Samba 3.4.7 > > Windows 7 > > > > Windows machine is on a domain. Samba box is *not* on a domain. > > > > Windows insists on adding the domain to the user name when browsing > > to Samba machine. Saving credentials and editing in Credential > > Manager kind of works, and the Samba share will open once the > > password is entered yet another time (don't know why)but it only > > saves it until logout. > > > > Adding the samba host/user/pass in Generic Credentials doesn't seem > > to make windows use that user/pass for that host. Ideas? > > > > Oh, and using 'net use...' with the Samba system's user/pass works > > just GREAT, and we may resort to that, but were trying to avoid it. > > > > Any other tricks I can do? So users can easily log in from the GUI? > > > > j -- Joshua Kugler Part-Time System Admin/Programmer http://www.eeinternet.com - Fairbanks, AK PGP Key: http://pgp.mit.edu/ ID 0x73B13B6A -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba