[Samba] newb question

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 11:30 -0700, abid dar wrote:
> --freebsd 5.4
> --samba 3.0.20
> 
> 1) when users are trying to connect from a windows
> machine (XP) they get prompted for username and
> password but it wont authenticate.  
> 
> 2) when I try to use smbpasswd to set password I get
> this error message:
> Failed to find entry for user bill.
> Failed to modify password entry for user bill
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you need a unix user - bill
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> 
> 
> 3) should I comment this line in smb.conf?
> encrypt passwords = yes
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shouldn't matter - yes is default - but I wouldn't
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> 
> 4) When users try to authenticate, why does it not
> show up in the log.smb file?
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my guess is that it should show up on
log.ip_address_of_machine_user_is_trying_to_log_in_from
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> 
> when i run testparm --everything looks okay.
> 
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sure - testparm doesn't check on validity of users

Craig