[Samba] User account unable to be updated

[Robert Adkins]

Hello All,

	I have recently needed to add two new mounted network drives to a client   
workstation running Windows 2000 Professional. This machine is joined to   
the Samba 2.2.5-10 running PDC and has access to all of the network   
shares, with proper permissions that it was configured with when the PDC   
was brought online roughly one and a half months ago.

	The user now requires permanent access to two additional network shares   
and those have been added to the user account logon .bat file, the   
account has been added to the groups that have access to those shares and   
it has been confirmed that the shares is configured to allow all members   
of those groups access the share.

	Now, when the user logs onto the workstation, those new shares pause the   
logon .bat window and ask for a password. When the user account password   
is entered, the bat file continues and ends, without mounting up the new   
shares.

	So, I went into the My Network Places icon and attempted to manually   
mount those shares. This popped up a Username/Password window and it   
refused to mount up the share when the user account and password was   
entered. I also used the username/password combination of all the users   
that have access to those shares and not a single username/password   
combination functioned. (Although with using other username/passwords an   
error message about the credentials being used elsewhere popped up on the   
screen.)

	I have read some remarks on this list regarding machine passwords and   
how those are typically automatically updated by Windows 2000 machines   
across a Windows Domain. Could that be causing the problems that I am   
experiencing with this user account?

	If so, how does one go about fixing this issue?

Regards,
Robert Adkins II
IT Manager/Buyer
Impel Industries, Inc.
Ph. 586-254-5800
Fx. 586-254-5804