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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Andy Thanks for the reply. Partial success as
follows: </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> Have you done "smbpasswd -a youruser" as root
on the samba server?<BR> Yes - already done that. <BR>> Is there
anything useful in the /var/log/samba/smbd.<client ip><BR>>
file?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Nothing useful.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But - if I remove the following 2 lines from the
Authentication section of smb.conf, it does work, but of course with no
login required. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>security = user</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>username map =
/etc/samba/smbusers</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>These 2 lines I added are from the help
stuff in <A
href="http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#How_to_install_Samba_Server_for_files.2Ffolders_sharing_service">http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#How_to_install_Samba_Server_for_files.2Ffolders_sharing_service</A> ,
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>So it's something to do with the
Authentication set up. Eventually I want to use Ubuntu to replace an aged
Novell server, so the logins will be essential.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Peter</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>