Samba and Win2k

Alin Osan aline at home.ro
Wed Jan 31 09:44:32 GMT 2001


On 29 Jan 2001, at 12:24, Julian Sinclair wrote:

> All,
> 
> Just received our first win2k/sp1 machine here. We currently have two
> solaris 2.6 samba installations running. One is on our print server
> and is version 1.19.something. The other is on our file server and is
> version 2.0.0.
> 
> The win2k machine seems quite happy to print from the 1.19 version and
> there seem to be problems there.
> 
> However, when I try to connect to the file server machine I get the
> following error in windows.
> 
> "The remote procedure called failed and did not execute"
> 
> the following lines also appear in my log.smb file:
> 
> [2001/01/29 11:41:30, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_special(95)
>   netbios connect: name1=[SAMBA SERVER]         name2=[WIN2K CLIENT]
> [2001/01/29 11:41:33, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(406)
>   Closing connections
> 
> The upshot of this to me appears to be a need to upgrade my samba
> installation or is there a fix/windows setup change that will prevent
> me from having to upgrade ?

You need an up-grade to samba 2.2 (alpha).   I don't know if the  
use plain passwors can do any good. It should, from what I know. I 
didn' t try it so you'll have to do it.




Alin Osan
Network Administrator
"Fundatia Casa"
http://www.tryrom.com/casa
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fax   059467202




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