On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 20:22 -0600, Eric Hines wrote: > Gentlemen: > > This is an embarrassingly basic problem; I'm obviously doing something > fundamentally wrong. I'm running SUSE Professional 9.3 and Samba 3.0.13 > (I'm trying to upgrade to 3.0.20b, but I get a dependency error--that's > another story). > > My problem is this: I'm trying to set up John Terpstra's Example 1.2.1 from > his Samba by Example (I told you this was basic), but when I run smbclient > -L lerver0 -Uroot%password (the real one), all I get is > NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE. smbclient -L localhost U% works > correctly. Testparm indicates the smb.conf is at least syntactically > correct. ps indicates that smbd and nmbd are both running. Finally, I've > confirmed that root is in smbpasswd and has the same password and the > overall Linux box (I've even reset it in smbpasswd to be sure). > > Any help would be appreciated. ---- just as a general practice, I would recommend against executing any command line that has root password in it since it can be retrieved from history...
smbclient -L localhost -U root # will prompt you from password and this password would not show up in history. Anyway... is there a difference between? smbclient -L localhost -U root and smbclient -L lerver0 -U root ? If so, do you have 'wins support = true # or yes' in smb.conf? If not, try adding it and then restart smb service Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
