user level authentication in samba-2.0.0beta4

[Robert Dahlem]

Liam,

On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 06:36:04 +1100, Liam Hoekenga wrote:

>I've compiled samba 2.0.0beta4 on Sun (sparc) Solaris 2.6.
>
>I can use smbclient to list the shares, but whenever i try to connect to
>the machine, i get the following error message:
>
>session setup failed:  ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password
>pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)

What is your "encrpted password" setting? When set to yes: do you have a correct 
smbpasswd file?

>when I try to use smbpasswd to reset the password on an account I get this
>message:
>
>machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the session startup.  Error was : code 131.

You have a "hosts allow" or something like that in your smb.conf which prevents 
localhost aka 127.0.0.1 to connect (which is needed for smbpasswd to work).

Hasta la vista,
               Robert

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