Samba and XP SP2 no love

[Rodolfo Alcázar]

On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 20:12 +0900, Information for Huge Designs wrote:
> I have 10 XP SP2 clients all trying to log into the server. If I go to map
> network drive I type the shares in like say \\apollo.local\common the
> server returns a request for a user name and password but even if I put
> the correct password in, it just pops back with user name and password.

Just some tips: samba asks the password you have created with the
command "smbpasswd -a". Independent of /etc/password file. Are you sure
you are creating passwords to the right file? Are you sure you are not
using the unix passwd?

As I see, this is your domain master, as a NT Primary Domain Controller
or PDC. There must not be other primary domain controllers on your Net,
specifically windows, I read that somewhere. try unplugging them from
your net.

For a client which is not onto the domain, Samba will ask for password
each new client session. But just once. For joining PCS to the domain, I
used the root smb account, as I read, and disable the root account.
Worked fine. Did you join your clients to smb's domain?

> 
> In the log files there is one for each machine but they are all empty.
> In the smb.log then NMB.log is a littel diffrent it keeps saying
> [root at apollo samba]# tail nmbd.log
>   *****
> 
>   Samba name server APOLLO is now a local master browser for workgroup
> MYGROUP on subnet 192.168.11.200

I see MYGROUP, not WORKGROUP, as below... Are you sure this is your smb
file? Probably this is the problem. 

>   *****
> The MyGROUP is alittle troublesome cause if you look below at the smb.conf
> I have clearly named it WORKGROUP

Check your smb start file (/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb) . Did you changed it?
Try updating your files database (updatedb) and locating config file
(locate smb.conf). Maybe there are some other places samba searches for
that file, and you have a misconfigured file placed there.

> I have checked my smb config with testpram and it works fine the server
> starts and is running.

You are testing the file you think samba is using, but probably that is
not the file.

> Things I have tried,
> Turning off firewalls on both machines
> creating new users and adding the users to samba users
> creating new groups and adding the users to them
> 
> I can ping and telnet from each port nessecary and am really at a loss for
> what I might be doing wrong.
> 
> any help would be appreciated.

Greetings...

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