[Samba] Authentification problem?

[Luc Landreville]

Greetings;

I have been trying to set Samba on the latest release of Fedora to share some
files on my office network. Here is my smbd.conf file:


#======================= Global Settings =====================================
[global]

   workgroup = Maison
   server string = Linux
   netbios name = Linux
   encrypt passwords = yes
   wins support = yes

[data]

   path = /data
   browseable = yes
   valid users = Luc, root
   write list = Luc, root


I can't see the /data share (or the Linux box for that matter) from the Win XP
machines. If I map a network drive on these machines (\\192.168.1.102\data), I
get prompted for a username and password (even when I am logged on the Windows
box with a "root" user that I have created with the same pwd used on the Linux
box) that I provide (root) but it doesn't work; here if the resulting smbd.log
file content:Here is the resulting log content:

[2005/07/18 00:56:24, 0] smbd/server.c:main(798)
  smbd version 3.0.14a-2 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2004
[2005/07/18 00:56:24, 0] smbd/server.c:main(835)
  standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option
[2005/07/18 00:56:25, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego(593)
  Unknown packet in reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego
[2005/07/18 00:56:25, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego(593)
  Unknown packet in reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego
[2005/07/18 00:57:56, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego(593)
  Unknown packet in reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego
[2005/07/18 00:57:56, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego(593)
  Unknown packet in reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego
[2005/07/18 00:58:18, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego(593)
  Unknown packet in reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego
[2005/07/18 00:58:18, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego(593)
  Unknown packet in reply_sesssetup_and_X_spnego

Following advices on other samva how-to sites to try to pinpoint the problem, I
have tried to mount a samba share on the linux box itself using this command: 

[root at localhost ~]# mount -t smbfs //127.0.0.1/data /mnt/test -o username=root
Password:
13604: session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.)
SMB connection failed
[root at localhost ~]#

This command did not generate a log entry.


Any help would be appreciated!

Best regards,

Luc Landreville