[Gllug] Re: SMB server setup

[Luke Hopkins]

You could install the windows registry patches so that the user/pass is sent
un-encrypted, doing this means you don't need to use smbpasswd everytime you
add a new unix user. Each new Unix user will just 'work'. Depends if you're
on a trusted network I guess.

Luke



----- Original Message -----
From: "rdrinkwater" <rdrinkwater at ego-computers.ltd.uk>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 5:37 PM
Subject: [Gllug] Re: SMB server setup


>
> Afternoon folks,
>
> For our sins we are trying to set up a new server as a SMB server to a M$
> network.
>
> We have reached the point where passwords are not being accepted (ever)
from
> windows machines when trying to access the shares through network
> neighborhood..
>
> If we configure smb.conf to have "security = user" then the windows
machine
> will request a pasword (for \\<server>\IPC$, i.e. upfront) as soon as we
> click on the name <server> (our mandrake 8.0 server) in the choice of
> machines in network neighbourhood.
>
> If we configure smb.conf to have "security = share" (i.e. password
> authentication at the share level) then we can click on <server> (in
network
> neighborhood) and get a list of all the shares and, for each share set as
> "guest ok = yes", we can access files view/alter etc. them.  For the
> "Shares" with "guest ok = no" (the default) you cannot access the share
> without the (windows machine) requesting a password.
>
> This is all fine and as it should be - the PROBLEM IS: It always refuses
to
> accept the password.
>
> The windows network computer name is "dickpc" but the "ENTER NETWORK
> PASSWORD" window has a User name on that pc set to "dick" and password
> ("fred").  From the /var/log/samba/dickpc.log it appears the username (for
> username/password use) IS dick.  We have set UNIX accounts on the SMB
server
> for dick, dickpc and DICK all with the same password ("fred") which is the
> same as the password set on the windows pc but they are all rejected.
>
> There must be something silly happening but we cannot see it.  We have
tried
> "password level = 8" in desperation (0 should be ok anyway as Unix
password
> for all accounts are in lower case).
>
> Any suggestions will be gratefully received.
>
> Regards
>
> Leszek Zdunek
> Roy Drinkwater
>
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