Error connecting from XP Pro

James W. Beauchamp jbeauchamp at gesinc.com
Tue Jan 1 10:26:04 GMT 2002


Did you create passwords for your user and machine accounts in passwd and
smbpasswd (or whatever authentication backend you are using)?

James

----- Original Message -----
From: "Abdallah Ghassan" <ang_lists at yahoo.com>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 8:18 AM
Subject: Error connecting from XP Pro


> Hello List,
>
> I have been trying to connect from an XP Pro box to
> the samba (2.2.2 from RPM on RH7.2) machine. I am
> trying a simple (!) configuration with just a
> WORKGROUP setup.
>
> XP sees the the box running samba (in the My Network
> Places) but cannot see anything below that. I get
> "\\BLACK is not accessible. You might not have
> permission to use this network resource ..."
> Checking the archives of this list I saw many issues
> regarding using encrypted passwords and such when
> connecting from Win2k or XP, I tried this but did not
> work. I feel like I am missing something, I mean it
> shouldn't be this hard since no one's had any trouble
> (worth mentioning in this list!)
>
> Below is my samba conf file:
> --------------------------
> # Global parameters
> [global]
>         workgroup = FUNINC
>         netbios name = BLACK
>         server string = Samba Server
>         security = SHARE
>         encrypt passwords = Yes
>         update encrypted = Yes
>         password level = 6
>         log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>         max log size = 50
>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192
> SO_SNDBUF=8192
>         dns proxy = No
>
> [homes]
>         comment = Home Directories
>         read only = No
>         browseable = No
>
> [printers]
>         comment = All Printers
>         path = /var/spool/samba
>         printable = Yes
>         browseable = No
>
> [DOCs]
>         comment = These are my documents
>         path = /usr/share/doc
>         read only = No
>         create mask = 076
>         guest ok = Yes
> ----------------------------------
>
> and here's the message I get in my /var/log/messages :
>
> Jan  1 14:31:38 blackhole smbd[3571]: [2002/01/01
> 14:31:38, 0] smbd/connection.c:yield_connection(62)
> Jan  1 14:31:38 blackhole smbd[3571]:
> yield_connection: tdb_delete for name  failed with
> error Record does not exist.
>
> So, what am I missing here?
> Thank you for any ideas, pointers.
>
> Abdallah Deeb,
> AnG Deeb.
>
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