[Samba] The account is not authorized to login from this station

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 11:44:41PM -0500, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 23:33, Amit Sharma wrote:
> > I have a simple smb.conf file:
> > 
> > [global]
> >         hosts allow = ALL
> > 
> >         [tmp]
> >                 user = root
> get rid of this line
> 
> >                 comment = temporary files 
> >                 path = /tmp
> >                 read only = yes
> >                 root = amits
> this makes no sense - get rid of this too

Agreed. 

> > 
> > command:> net use f: \\smbserver\tmp <user>, <password>
> > 
> > error:>	System error 1240 has occured.
> > 		The account is not authorized to login from this station
> 
> you need to have  <user> in both /etc/passwd and /etc/smbpasswd for 
> logons to work.
> make sure you set the password with
> smbpasswd <user> so you know what it is.
> 
> (the samba password does not have to be the same as the unix password)

In Samba < 3.0 you must set 'encrypt passwords = yes' to use the smbpasswd file.

Andrew Bartlett