Samba is trying to use hostname instead of username

[Pat]

Are you using a Domain or just a workgroup?  If you are using a Domain, is the Samab machine set up as the PDC
or is it the member of a NT controlled domain?

Jelmer Vernooij wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just installed samba at a Linux server in a network with about 100
> NT 4 clients. Everything is working fine... except for the password authentication.
>
> I did some research and found out that samba is trying to validate the password together with the HOSTNAME!
> Here are some strings that are used as 'username':
>
> lok05pc11
> Lok05pc11
> lok05pc11
> LOK05PC11
>
> lok05pc11 is the hostname of the machine that is trying to log in.
>
> What am I doing wrong? Why is samba checking all these names?
>
> Tia,
>
> Jelmer