Okay, I'm out of my wits here...

I have several Linux boxen at the office that I have to make
accessible to the general office public via SMB fileshares. Network is
a mostly homogenous Windows environment, with an Active Directory PDC.
I had initially gotten Samba 3 to work with the ADS (fileshares were
accessible, etc.), but for some reason the set up I did was broken.
Badly.

Now, I've followed the Samba HOWTOs [1], and I'm lost in limbo.
Initially, after setup, I could browse the newly configured Linux
box's fileshares from my WinXP Pro laptop (and I do authenticate via
the AD). However, I can't access the fileshares subsequently-- without
me touching a configuration option whatsover. It's gotten me so
frustrated and stumped.

FWIW, following are the steps I initiated to set up Samba 3 AD auth
(from HOWTO[1])

*) Set up Samba to use AD security (i.e. 'security = ADS' and other
related options in smb.conf)
*) Initialize Kerberos tickets via ' kinit [EMAIL PROTECTED] ', substituting
a valid user account
*) Join the domain via 'net ads join -U user_with_join_rights_or_admin'

NB: I initialized the Kerberos ticket with a different account than
the one used to join the domain. I asked the network admin to join the
machine for me. (This might be the source of my problems-- haven't
checked/tested it yet.)

What am I missing? What should I check?

(I can't attach the smb.conf I'm using since I'm at home, but I can
attach it later if you guys need it)


[1] Samba HOWTO Collection 
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/
-> especially on joining as a Domain Member
http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/domain-member.html#ads-member

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