FW: samba authentication

[Ami Shamril]

It worked now. Just put all ur workstations in /etc/hosts and the problem
went away.
Anybody with the same problem please tries this.
TQ


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> -----Original Message-----
>From:	Chris Fischer [mailto:praxis at eskimo.com]
>Sent:	Tuesday, January 16, 2001 12:36 PM
>To:	Ami Shamril
>Subject:	samba authentication
>
>Hi,
>
>I saw your post on samba-ntdom regarding samba authentication. While
>perusing
>the thread you started it appears that the latest Samba 2.0.7 CVS release
>solves the problem. However, I'm willing to bet that the problem is a
>reverse
>DNS lookup problem. That being the case, I'm also willing to bet that if
you
>entered the IP addresses of the Win 9x clients into your '/etc/hosts' file,
>the authentication problems will automagically disappear. I too had this
>problem, which went away after doing what I've suggested.
>
>If that works for you, maybe you could post the fix to the list, as I'm not
>subscribed to the ntdom list.
>
>Regards,
>
>Chris

----- Original Message -----
From:	"Ami Shamril" <ashamril at aurallix.com <mailto:ashamril at aurallix.com>>
To:	"Samba-Ntdom (E-mail)" <samba-ntdom at samba.org
<mailto:samba-ntdom at samba.org>>
Sent:	Tuesday, January 02, 2001 11:50 PM
Subject:	samba authentication


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> Hi...
> I've successfully configured samba 2.0.6 (RH6.2) as a PDC.
> All my users (Win9X) can log into the server.
> But there is one problem... sometimes we must enter at least 3 times the
> password b4 the server authenticated it.
> 1st & 2nd time the error is password not correct.... Even we key in the
> correct password. For the 3rd time normally ok...
> Anybody have the same problem...
> Please advise
> TQ in advance.

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