I can't browse from W2K

[Andrew Bartlett]

> SRD Liu ZhiLing wrote:
> 
> Dear Andrew,
> 
>      I really need you help on the Samba server I have installed on a
>      Sun workstation with Solaris 2.8. The program have been compiled
>      and installed successfully and all the tests ( including testparm
>      and smbclient -U% -L localhost ) seemed to work fine. But when I
>      tried to browse from my PC which has W2K professional, it failed
>      every time. I can see the workstation listed in my Network
>      Neighborhood but I can not open it. Every time an alert jumps out
>      with such message:" Can not access \\s3geda-1. Your account
>      hasn't been authorized to log on by the workstation". I tried to
>      use console command " net use"  but got the same error and had an
>      error  1240.

You need to either set 'encrypt passwords = yes' in your smb.conf file
or apply one of the plaintext password registry hacks to your clients
(insecure).  The registry hacks are in the samba docs directory.

>      Could you please help me to find out what's wrong  with it? By
>      the way, my PC resides in a MS domain and gets IP address from
>      DHCP. While the SUN workstation have static IP address. They are
>      in the same subnet.

The normal way to store the Windows compatible passwords is to create an
smbpasswd file (smbpasswd -a user), but you might want to look into
running in 'security = domain' mode, where you pass the password back to
the windows DC.  Look into the username mapping options in the usernames
don't match up.

Andrew Bartlett

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