[Samba] The account is not authorized to login from this station.

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Sat Feb 28 00:39:17 GMT 2004


On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 11:28, Alex Harris wrote:
> Her's my smb.conf file:
> 
> # Samba config file created using SWAT
> # from 192.168.12.102 (192.168.12.102)
> # Date: 2004/02/27 22:21:09
> # Global parameters
> [global]
>     workgroup = COMMUNICCI
>     server string = Osiris File Server
>     encrypt passwords = No

This is a *very* bad idea.  Create an smbpasswd file, and set this back
to 'yes'.

Problems caused by this setting include the need to patch every current
microsoft client, and numerous client bugs.

Andrew Bartlett

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