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

Alex Harris aharris at digitalraver.com
Sat Feb 28 02:14:34 GMT 2004


I got it working. For some reason SWAT was updating the smbpasswd file 
incorrectly, when I run smbpasswd manually on the machine everything 
works just fine. Thanks for all your help. :-0

Alex Harris wrote:

> I've got an smbpasswd file on the server, do I also need to change 
> some configuration on the clients? It still doesn't like any of the 
> usernames or passwords that I've setup.
>
> Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>
>> 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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