[Samba] Samba and Windows XP

[Jason Johnson]

I will reboot XP again.  Just so you know, I never even get the opportunity 
to login to samba through windows.  as soon as I doubleclick the icon in My 
Network Places.  It just spits out an error saying I do not have permissions 
or the network path could not be found
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nikola Vanevski" <nino at postbank.com.mk>
To: "Samba Mailing List" <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 2:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba and Windows XP


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>
> Jason Johnson wrote:
>
> > That gave me an invalid password error.  Even though my password is
> > correct. This is the strangest thing I have ever seen
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simone" <simone72 at email.it>
> > To: "Jason Johnson" <jason at oregonnet.com>
> > Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2004 1:23 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Samba] Samba and Windows XP
>
> That is an issue I run into repeatedly with Windows XP - it uses cached
> passwords. If you had made an error logging to a Samba server, XP won't
> even try to log you again second time, it will just report an error. I
> solve it by changing the samba password if it is not the same as the XP
> one, and then rebooting the XP client to "forget" all cached passwords.
> If passwords are the same, just reboot the XP box.
>
> I never get this behaviour with Win2K clients, though.
>
> Best,
> Nino
>
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