Account not authorized to login - WHY NOT?

[thing]

smb.conf?

without that its hard to know at all.

did u do a smbpasswd -a <user> ?

wrong permissions on the underlying file structure?

any hosts allow = lines? if so take them out for now

thing

Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> 
> Lance Murray wrote:
> >
> > Hello:
> >
> > I have installed Samba successfully on a Sun Solaris 8 (Sparc box). Using the SWAT web tool I was ablt to get a smb.conf file created. If can connect directly from the Sparc box with no problems, example:
> >
> >   smbclient //localhost/homes
> >   added interface ip=10.12.254.58 bcast=10.12.254.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> >   Password:
> >   Domain=[SMBWORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 2.2.2]
> >   smb: \>         [at this point I can ls my home directory "/export/home/murraylk"]
> >
> > However, try as I might, I can't attach from my PC, example
> >
> >   C:\>net use g: \\ldsslcu158\homes
> >   System error 1240 has occurred.
> >   The account is not authorized to log in from this station.
> 
> > Does anyone have an idea what a "System error 1240 is" [W2K workstation] or why "The [my] account is not authorized to log in from this station  I use the same name & password on my W2K & Solaris box.  First CORRECT answer gets tickets for two to Jimmy Neutron movie via PayPal.
> 
> Simple:  Add 'encrypt passwords = yes' to your smb.conf and setup an
> smbpasswd file.  Or try the registry hack, but thats ugly and forces
> extra password prompts.  (Registry hack files included in the samba
> doco)
> 
> BTW, the hosts equiv stuff didn't work because the client bails out
> after the negprot, so it never even tries to authenticate.
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
> 
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