[Samba] SAMBA PROBLEM ON LINUX

[dmdeflui at subcorp.com.au]

Guys, 

I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question but I am using
Redhat 6.2 Linux and Samba 2.2.1a.  We have Windows NT Workstations and 2000
servers with which we need to talk to.  (Note:  Can't upgrade to Redhat 7.2
or Samba 2.2.2 due to company requirements at least for a few more months.)

I have a problem with a user who is trying to write to a folder called
"qcp_docs" whilst logged in as a user "cmsdocs" to the Redhat 6.2 Linux box
called SERVER1.

The linux directory permissions are 775 for both the cmsdocs and qcp_docs
directories. 

The cmsdocs user is a member of the qcp_docs group (and visa versa but only
temporary - I am hoping to remove this requirement (the major user logons
have a group of the same name as their user logon).  All folders have the
user logon owning the directory and files but the group of the files and
folder belongs to a user called webmaster - this cannot be changed due to
software requirements on the server.

The cms_docs user still cannot write to the qcp_docs user's folder, so since
the qcp_docs user's account is not being used by the intended user yet, we
decided to set up a couple of .bat files to allow the user to swap from
qcp_docs to cmsdocs accounts from their PC to copy their html (converted
from word) documents.

The swap from qcp_docs using the following commands works fine: 

net use \\SERVER1\IPC$ <\\SERVER1\IPC$>  /delete 
net use \\SERVER1\CMSDOCS <\\SERVER1\CMSDOCS>  /delete 
net use \\SERVER1\IPC$ <\\SERVER1\IPC$>  /delete 
net use \\SERVER1\QCP_DOCS <\\SERVER1\QCP_DOCS>  "passwdgoeshere"
/user:qcp_docs 

Unfortunately, the moment the second .bat file is run to set the user logon
back to cms_docs using the following commands:

net use \\SERVER1\IPC$ <\\SERVER1\IPC$>  /delete 
net use \\SERVER1\QCP_DOCS <\\SERVER1\QCP_DOCS>  /delete 
net use \\SERVER1\IPC$ <\\SERVER1\IPC$>  /delete 
net use \\SERVER1\CMSDOCS <\\SERVER1\CMSDOCS>  "passwdgoeshere"
/user:cmsdocs 

The user gets the error: 
System error 1219 has occurred. 
The credentials supplied conflict with an existing set of credentials. 

Has anyone else had this kind of problem? 

Below is an extract of my smb.conf file - removing unrelated users and their
folders: 

# Samba config file created using SWAT 
# from w-asc-osb-0844.asc.com.au (69.10.152.99) 
# Date: 2001/10/16 13:58:21 

# Global parameters 
[global] 
        workgroup = SAMBA 
        netbios name = SERVER1 
        server string = Windows NT Server clone 
        log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m 
        max log size = 0 
        socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 
        domain master = Yes 
        dns proxy = No 
        valid users = webmaster,root,cmsdocs,qcp_docs 
        write list = webmaster,root,cmsdocs,qcp_docs 
        hosts allow = 69.10. 69.20. 69.30. 69.40. 69.50. 

[homes] 
        comment = Home Directories 
        writeable = Yes 
        browseable = No 

[printers] 
        comment = All Printers 
        path = /var/spool/samba 
        printable = Yes 
        browseable = No 

[cmsdocs] 
        comment = cmsdocs 
        path = /home/httpd/html/asc_web/cms_docs 
        username = cmsdocs 
        valid users = webmaster,root,cmsdocs,qcp_docs 
        write list = webmaster,root,cmsdocs,qcp_docs 

[qcp_docs] 
        comment = qcp_docs 
        path = /home/httpd/html/asc-e/qcp/qcp_docs 
        invalid users = newsletter,finance,sscc,irc 
        valid users = webmaster,root,qcp_docs,cmsdocs 
        write list = webmaster,root,qcp_docs,cmsdocs 
        writeable = Yes 

Regards, 
Desiree M. de Fluiter 
Database Administrator 
Australian Submarine Corporation Pty Ltd 
Mersey Road 
Outer Harbor  SA  5018 
Australia 
Telephone:      +61 08 8348 7724 
Fax:            +61 08 8348 7001 

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