>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed May 15 07:44:56 2002 >From: "Nelson, John P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [Samba] Windows 2000 Passwords >Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 07:45:30 -0400 >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >>When a Windows 2000 computer in the Sun workgroup tries >>to access a share on the Linux Samba workgroup the following error message >>comes up: >> Incorrect password or unknown user name for: > >And I assume that if you provide the correct password, it connects.
No it does not, this is the problem, the message just returns. > >>Why is this? Does Win2K require the password on the local Win2K >>machine to be the same as on the Samba server? > >No, having the same password isn't "required". I find it hard to understand >what's confusing you about this behavior. > >When making a network connection Win2K will first attempt to use the >original login password. If that doesn't succeed, it tells the user that it >doesn't already know the right password, and asks the user to supply another >one. That's the prompt you are seeing. > >If both the client and server are members of a domain (and if they are in >the same domain, or if the two domains have a trust relationship), then the >server's local password is not used for validation - the client sends the >password to the server, and the server then consults the domain controller >to determine if the password is correct. The Samba server's local password >does not come into play. > The client and server are in two different domains with different PDCs. I was able to connect from an NT machine in the domain of the Win2K client using the password assigned in the other domain. I cannot connect from the Win2K machine though. How can two domains have a trust relationship? Don Werder [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
