[Samba] XP Pro, Samba-3 authentication consistancy problems

[Justin Kreger]

I'm seeing the same exact thing, Primarly with an XP Home user, and one
XP Pro user.

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 10:56, Damian Gerow wrote:
> I really don't know where to start on this one...
> 
> We have an XP Pro workstation.  The user on this workstation is, say, 'bob'.
> Earlier this year, bob would log in to his workstation with a different
> password than was on the Samba machine.  I /think/ that's what's causing the
> problems, but I'm not sure.
> 
> Anyhow, we had specifically mapped drives on bob's workstation using his
> samba password.  Lately, bob's been having troubles where he can mount
> drives but can't see the contents.  In fact, trying to view the contents can
> crash his entire computer -- we have to end the explorer task, and re-start
> it.
> 
> So we changed passwords everywhere to be the new password, killed all drive
> mappings, and tried again.  The weird thing is, we'd be able to list the
> contents of the share for a couple of minutes, then we'd lose it again.  The
> samba logs actually showed something like this:
> 
>     [2003/06/24 09:57:12, 2] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(288)
>       check_ntlm_password:  authentication for user [bob] -> [bob] -> [bob] suceeded
>     [2003/06/24 09:58:47, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(558)
>       Closing connections
>     [2003/06/24 09:59:35, 2] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(295)
>       check_ntlm_password:  Authentication for user [bob] -> [bob] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_WRONG_PASSWORD
>     [2003/06/24 09:59:35, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(558)
>       Closing connections
>     [2003/06/24 09:59:35, 2] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(295)
>       check_ntlm_password:  Authentication for user [bob] -> [bob] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_WRONG_PASSWORD
> 
> It looks almost like the workstation is trying a /different/ password the
> second time.
> 
> So, we re-mapped all the drives, explicitly specifying the password.  Then
> tried it all again using the /old/ password on both machines.  At this
> specific moment, bob has access to our samba server, but it's hard to say
> for how long.
> 
> I realize this is all a bit erratic, but I haven't been able to find a
> common ground amongst all this.  I'm willing to just blame the workstation,
> just wondering if anyone can give any pointers/eye openers before I do?
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