[Samba] Re: Samba problems with Sco Openserver

[kerravon]

Hi John,
               I realised after that it wasn't a valid user so I replaced it
with a valid user account, still the same error message
                occurs.

Adrian
----- Original Message -----
From: "John H Terpstra" <jht at samba.org>
To: "Adrian Stokes" <adrian_stokes at blueyonder.co.uk>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Re: Samba problems with Sco Openserver


> On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Adrian Stokes wrote:
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Adrian Stokes
> > To: John H Terpstra
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 1:43 PM
> > Subject: Samba problems with Sco Openserver
> >
> >
> > Hi John,
> >             I emailed that chap you suggested, just got an out of office
reply.
> >             I think I'm halfway there though,  I ran the following
command
> >
> > #smbclient -U% -L localhost
>
> That command says:
>
> List resources on 'localhost' as user null and password null. ie:
> -Uusername%password, which are empty. ie: -U'nothing'%'nothing' == -U%.
>
> >
> > Added inetrface ip=192.168.x.x bcast= 192.168.x.x nmask=255.x.x.x
> > Session Setup Failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password
> > pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are Invalid.)
>
> This means that your system lacks an account for the unix user that should
> be used to allow your clients to retrieve the browse list from the IPC$
> share. Please refer to man smb.conf and search for 'guest account'.
>
> >
> > So I had a look in the /etc/inetd.conf file and added the following two
> > lines
> >
> > netbios-ssn stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/samba/bin/smbd smbd
> > netbios-ns dgram tcp nowait root /usr/local/samba/bin/nmbd nmbd
> >
>
> It is much better to run smbd and nmbd as Daemons, otherwise you may
> experience browsing problems. Running through inetd is possible but bit
> preferred.
>
> > then ran kill -HUP id_no
> >
> > re running the smbclient command above resulted in the same error
> > message, I can connect to the share from a windows client by
> > \\servername\sharename it asks for password and accepts it this time.
> > I'm still confused about the error message above but I seem to be making
> > headway. Any input you can give will be greatfully recieved.
> >
> > regards
> > Adrian
>
>
> - John T.
> --
> John H Terpstra
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