[Gllug] Re: SMB server setup

[Pete Black]

have you used the smbpasswd utility to give the user dick a password?

That sounds like the trouble.

Hope that helps

-Pete

On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 05:37:52PM +0100, rdrinkwater wrote:
> 
> 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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