frustrated and lost

[Amol Karnik]

ok i'm getting closer to setting samba as a PDC on a sun machine
now...thanks to all, for your patience and understanding...its tough
stuff you know, especially when i have no idea what i'm doing.

now, i have security = server, password server = sambaserverhostname and 
encrypt passwords turned off.

i'm testing everything using smbclient on the same machine ( the samba
server )
i can do for eg,

smbclient '\\blue\tmp' and it asks me for my passwd and puts me in /tmp
..
i can do this for some users, and not for others.... whats going on
here?

of the users i can do this for, i had specifically run smbpasswd to
change the passwd in the private/smbpasswd file. for one, the fields are
still XXX's. the same as when i ran mksmbpasswd on the /etc/passwd file.
these all work ok... so that means that a smbpasswd doesnt need to be
run.

now for one user, it just wont log him in. i tried leaving the smpasswd
entry intact ( all XXXXX's) and also by running smbpasswd and changing
the password.

from the logs i gathered that there were some lines which said 

================================================
[1998/10/01 11:45:31, 3] libsmb/namequery.c:(481)
  resolve_name: Attempting lmhosts lookup for name BLUE
[1998/10/01 11:45:31, 4] libsmb/namequery.c:(317)
  startlmhosts: Can't open lmhosts file /usr/local/samba/lib/lmhosts.
Error was No such file or directory
[1998/10/01 11:45:31, 3] libsmb/namequery.c:(464)
  resolve_name: Attempting host lookup for name BLUE
[1998/10/01 11:45:31, 1] smbd/password.c:(947)
  Password server loop - disabling password server BLUE
[1998/10/01 11:45:31, 0] smbd/password.c:(959)
  password server not available
[1998/10/01 11:45:31, 3] smbd/negprot.c:(409)
  Selected protocol NT LANMAN 1.0
[1998/10/01 11:45:31, 5] smbd/negprot.c:(416)
  negprot index=7
[1998/10/01 11:45:31, 5] lib/util.c:(955)
==============================================


this doesnt happen to other users. i tried logging on from a win95
machine and it let me login ok ,and when i browsed over to the samba
server, it had automatically given me my home dir.
it doesnt do it for this one person however.


any clues folks?


regards,

amol