[Wylug-help] XP shares and Samba Problem

[John C]

Hi Edward...
I've been struggling, along with a friend, with Samba for the last couple of weeks.
I found this quite helpful. Maybe it will help you:

http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba/samba-pdc.html

John C


At 10:11 26/04/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I wondered if anyone here might have any ideas on this.  Tried posting
>this to comp.protocols.smb this week but so far no solution.  Hope this
>post is not too long but I've tried to include all relevant info.
>
>I've been running Samba as a PDC on RedHat 8.0 since December and it's
>worked wonderfully with a private network of mostly w98 clients, 6 W2K
>clients and 1 Windows XP client.
>
>Over the weekend I upgraded Samba for the first time to the latest RPM
>package 2.2.7-5.8.0, and also upgraded the kernel on the RH server to
>2.4.18-27.8.0.  I previously had compiled Samba from source in December.
>
>All the client machines including Windows 2000 & 98 work fine as before
>but now the Windows XP client won't allow connections to its shares from
>other Win98 clients, it just throws up the box which says "You must
>supply a password..." when you double click on the XP machine from
>Netwok Neighbourhood.  We need to access a shared printer connected to
>this WinXP machine.  Other than that the WinXP machine works fine, we
>can still log onto the domain from it and access shares from it, list
>the users in the domain, etc..  Before the upgrade we could access the
>shares on this client without any problems.
>
>I tried enabling the guest account on the Win XP client and making sure
>'guest' is not specified as an account that can't connect to the machine
>in the Security Policies section.  However, the problem remains.
>
>Also, none of the Samba logs (neither of the clients' logs or the main
>logs) nor the XP Event Logs have anything to say about the failed
>connections.
>
>Has anybody else experienced anything similar or have any suggestions?
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated as this printer is shared by one
>of the top bosses who can't print since this upgrade! :)  I don't want
>to move the printer to another workstation either for office political
>reasons!
>
>Here's the global section of smb.conf, which is largely unchanged, I've
>just added the socket options:
>
>[global]
>
>netbios name = ****
>workgroup = ***********
>server string = **********
>hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.2. 127.
>log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>os level = 64
>preferred master = yes
>guest account = ftp
>domain master = yes
>local master = yes
>enhanced browsing = yes
>wins support = yes
>socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>remote announce = 192.168.2.255
>security = user
>hide local users = no
>encrypt passwords = yes
>smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd domain logons = yes
>admin users = user1 user2 user3
>domain admin group = @group
>logon script = login.bat
>logon path = \\%N\profiles\%u
>logon home = \\%L\%U\.profiles
>add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 100 -s /bin/false -M %u
>
>
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