Win2K fails to mount (samba 2.0.8)

[Bill Moran]

I'm doing a bit of guessing here, but did you give the W2K machine a
"Workstation Trust" account? I'm not 100% sure that this is your
problem, but that's what it sounds like.
Check out "man 5 smbpasswd" as well as "man 8 smbpasswd" for more
details on this, and let me know if it works.

-Bill

Paul Goyette wrote:
> 
> Please forgive me if this is a stupid question, but I'm not really an
> expert on Microsoft networking...
> 
> I've got samba 2.0.8 running, with a very minimal config:
> 
>         [global]
>         dns proxy = no
>         follow symlinks = no
>         lm announce = false
>         netbios name = offshore-ventures
>         debuglevel = 10
> 
>         [peter]
>         path = /home/peter
>         writeable = yes
>         browseable = no
>         user = peter
>         invalid users = root operator backup
> 
> I have only smbd running, no nmbd.
> 
> Now, I can easily connect to the share from the smbclient program.  But
> when attempting to connect using Win2K on my laptop, the laptop shuts
> down the tcp session as soon as smbd responds with its reply for
> protocol negotiation, and reports that "the account is not authorized to
> log in from this station."
> 
> As far as I can tell, the laptop is not trying to connect to anything
> else (like an NT domain controller) - tcpdump catches no messages
> between the laptop and any other host except for the samba server.  And,
> at least based on the debug info in samba's log, samba just gets an
> unexpected EOF when trying to read the next message from the client
> (after having sent its reply to protocol negotiation).
> 
> Any idea on how to make this work?