[Samba] Connecting to SAMBA shares

[Joris De Pooter]

Ryan Beckett a écrit :
> Hi 
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> I have just configured a test machine to use winbind and samba so that I
> users can authenticate against my Win2003 SP1 AD controller. Everything
> seems to work great but I cannot seem to access any SAMBA shares that
> are created on the Linux machine. I constantly get asked for my username
> and password. I am trying to connect to the SAMBA share from a Windows
> XP client. I am assuming that the problem is because Windows is trying
> to authenticate me using DOMAIN\username while winbind and samba are
> using the format DOMAIN+username.. Has anyone encountered this before?
> Is there a way around this issue? I tried to change the winbind
> separator to a '\' but this did not seem to help either. Any assistance
> would be greatly appreciated....
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> Many thanks!
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> RB
> 

Hi

The winbind separator is only for easier handle from your linux 
box, as the escape char \ can cause trouble.

Did your test machine join your domain ? (Using the net join command)
Can you give us the relevant parameters of yor smb.conf ?



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