On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 9:37 AM, Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Rout wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi, I have set up some users with passwords using the kubuntu user >>> management tool, created a file share via webmin and added those users as >>> valid users for the share. As root used "smbpasswd -a" to (do what ever >>> that >>> does) for each user using the same password. When that user attempts to >>> connect to that share from an XP box, they can not do so with that >>> username, >>> the only user that can do so is my own username which was created prior >>> to >>> the serving machine booting. >>> So I'm thinking something needs to be restarted on the server, have >>> restarted samba, and that's not enough. I can see the users listed as >>> "valid users" for the share in smb.conf. What have I missed? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Roger >>> >> >> permissions on the shared directories/files? >> > > Permissions appear good for the user. On the XP box I'm getting "incorrect > password or unknown username for \\machine\share" . . . > >
is there a firewall on the linux machine that is preventing connections? can you log into the samba share from the command line on the linux machine using that password? is password encryption turned on on both windows (it is the default except on really dead versions like 95) and in samba?
