The reason why this is not entirely OT is that I set up a password on my wife's XP machine last night as part of the exercise of connecting to her printer via cups. Previously you needed no password to log in and your usename was Sue (or maybe sue, if it makes a difference, as you will see). Sue/sue has admin privileges.
Now she gets home and sits down with the boy to do some homework. She cannot log in. She puts in the password, which we repeated backwards and forwards over the phone enough times for even the dumbest SIS agent to hear. She does not have the caps lock down (indeed XP nicely warns you if you have when logging in! nice!) Weird thing is I can ssh into the linux box at home, and mount a share on the XP box using user Sue (or user sue, which makes me believe user names in windows do not care about case) and the aforesaid password. Without a password the mount -t smbfs fails. Needless to say this is about as useful to her as you-know-what, and my name is being muttered in the middle of dark incantations and imprecations. Can anyone get me out of the poop and tell me what the hell could be the matter? As a last resort I have a cd that will enable me to zero out the password again, but there must be something simpler, as the password MUST be correct, as I can mount over the network with smbfs????? -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
