[Samba] Cannot login to PDC(FreeBSD boxen) from client(win XP)

[Chris E]

I'm well aware of that. I didn't say new to networking, just windows 
networking. :)) They both have different names and there are only two 
pc's, the PDC and the XP client. I've changed the XP machines name 
repeatedly and rebooted each time as the machine requests and it still 
doesn't work. I only wish it was easy as the error says. Thanks for your 
reply though!


Craig White wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 11:08, Chris E wrote:
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>> I'm finally getting somewhere in setting up my FreeBSD PDC. I try and 
>> login via my XP client and now it gives me this odd message. "Cannot 
>> login because a duplicate user already exists on the network. Please 
>> goto control panel and system and change your computer name." Sorta 
>> paraphrased there, perhaps off by a word or two but that's pretty 
>> much what it tells me. I'm just using system users and smbpasswd for 
>> setting up users. Not sure what other info may be needed. The 
>> following is my smb.conf and my logs. I'm new to Samba and windows 
>> networking in general so go easy. =) Thanks in advance.
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> basic network rule = each computer must have a different name. Windows
> XP - Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System
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> Computer Name (tab) -> Change Name (pick something unique)
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> Craig
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