On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 18:17, Jon Reynolds wrote: > I am using WinXP Pro with FreeBSD5.1 and Samba-3.0.0beta3 > > On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 18:15, Jon Reynolds wrote: > > I am at the end of my rope, I am trying to get a winxp box to logon to a > > pdc using freebsd5.1 and keep getting "Logon failure: unknown user name > > or bad passsword." or "Access Denied". > > > > I am trying to logon with 'root' and the user is in smbpasswd and > > /etc/passwd. I think my problem is I am not sure how to add the machine > > account into the samba server. I have tried just adding the user then > > adding a '$' after the username in /etc/passwd, when this is done I can > > use smbpasswd -a -m <MachineName> and it adds the computer to smbpasswd > > with a '$' sign next to it. > > > > No matter which logon I try and use I never get to authenticate. I have > > also made the two registry changes to the XP box and still I cannot log > > in. > > > > Can someone help me with this or point me to a freebsd doc or something. > > I'm going nuckin' futs with this. > > > > Any help is greatly appreciated, > > > > Jon
I got it to finally work. What I ended up doing is adding a user with the '$' sign appended to the machinename i.e 'testbox$'. I know, I should have tried this before but from everything I had read it was not supposed to work. Maybe in FreeBSD5.1 this is different from previous versions. Jon -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba