[Samba] Beginner setting up samba: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

[Thomas Hahn]

On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 03:53:09PM +0200, Daniel Müller wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:33:12 +0200, thahn01 at t-online.de (Thomas Hahn)
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am trying to set up samba on this host and testing it locally
> > is giving me headaches right away.
> > 
> > tom at hversa:~:~$ smbclient -L localhost -U%
> > Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.8]
> > 
> >         Sharename       Type      Comment
> >         ---------       ----      -------
> >         homes           Disk      Home Directories
> >         print$          Disk      Printer Drivers
> >         IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (hversa server)
> >         e250dn          Printer   Lexmark printer Ksenia
> > Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.8]
> > 
> >         Server               Comment
> >         ---------            -------
> >         HVERSA               hversa server
> > 
> >         Workgroup            Master
> >         ---------            -------
> >         DERU_WICO001         OCHENTA
> >         WORKGROUP            HVERSA
> > 
> > So, there is sth. configured, BUT:
> > 
> > tom at hversa:/var/log/samba$ smbclient //hversa/tom -d 3
> > lp_load_ex: refreshing parameters
> > Initialising global parameters
> > rlimit_max: rlimit_max (1024) below minimum Windows limit (16384)
> > params.c:pm_process() - Processing configuration file
> "/etc/samba/smb.conf"
> > Processing section "[global]"
> > added interface eth0 ip=fe80::224:1dff:fedc:c0c1%eth0
> > bcast=fe80::ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff%eth0 netmask=ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff::
> > added interface eth0 ip=192.168.1.48 bcast=192.168.1.255
> > netmask=255.255.255.0
> > Client started (version 3.4.8).
> > Enter tom's password: 
> Hello,
> 
> did you a smbpasswd -a root?
> Or are simply the rights wrong for the path:/var/run/samba/
> try to chmod or chown.
> Or set your interfaces in your global section do 127.0.0.1 and your eth0
> 
> Greetings 
> Daniel
> 

After getting these hints, I have done a 
smbpasswd -a root

to find out that samba passwd are not identical to user passwords.
smbpasswd tom
and try again with smbclient did work.