[Samba] Connectivity issues with Samba 3.0.24 on Aix 6.1

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2017-05-26 at 13:51 +0530, Chunduru, Krishnachaithanya via
samba wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm having Samba version 3.0.24 running on our Aix 6.1 servers.
> 
> I have created a new samba share and given permission for a particular user and restricted access to only his group.
> 
> We are able to access the share only from a particular subnet but not from all. I have added the desired subnet to allowed networks in global configuration, but still it's not allowing.
> 
> Tried to change the registry entries in Windows side which didn't helped at all.

I would note that 'encrypt passwords = no' is pretty well unsupported
client-side these days.  I don't know if this is your issue, but you
should try setting a password with smbpasswd and removing this option.

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> Below is the global and share configuration. Can someone please help me with the error.
> 
> [global]
>         workgroup = XXXX
>         server string = XXXXXXX
>         encrypt passwords = no
>         passdb backend = tdbsam
>         log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>         log level = 2
>         max log size = 1000
>         preferred master = no
>         local master = no
>         domain master = no

I hope this helps,

Andrew Bartlett

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