Disclaimer: I'm neither a Windows network person nor a Samba expert, but this issue was interesting enough to dig into it a little since I've had to monkey with Linux-Windows connectivity a bit at work. Follow my advice at the risk of your network developing its own sentience and taking over the world. Or crashing. Or both.
Do you have encrypt passwords = yes in smb.conf? XP may be set to require encrypted passwords so the Linux box is getting a scrambled version of the password. You can try adding that line or, if you don't want to change the Samba settings since all the other clients work fine as-is, on the XP machine as an administrator go to Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Local Security Policy | Local Policies | Security Options and enable "Microsoft Network Client: send unencrypted password to third-party SMB servers." Keep in mind that the local policy can be overridden by the group policy on the domain (assuming the Windows boxes are in one) so you may want to check with your Windows network administrator to make sure that the setting will persist between reboots. Also to further troubleshoot the issue if that turns out not to be the culprit, beside the Samba logs on the Linux end, check the Event Viewer on the Windows end - Start | Run | eventvwr. On Mar 27, 9:08 pm, Kari Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > Nothing. It clears the username /password dialogue box. I was able to login > as another person, but I get an error when I reboot that I cannot connect to > the same server with 2 different usernames. > > The machine is Lisa's, and I can't login as Lisa (though her XP login is > Lisa), but I can login as Brad - at least until reboot. > > Argh! What am I missing? > > On Mar 28, 2010 12:13 AM, "thejaguar" <[email protected]> wrote: > > What exactly is the Windows machine saying is wrong when you try to > log in? > > On Mar 25, 5:59 am, Kari Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: > It looks like > there is just one XP m... > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. To post a message... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup To unsubscribe from this group, send email to linuxusersgroup+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
