Samba and XP SP2 no love

[Information (Erin Hughes)]

Information for Huge Designs wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I am having ALOT of trouble getting samba working a FC4 system I admin.
>
>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.
>
>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
>
>  *****
>The MyGROUP is alittle troublesome cause if you look below at the smb.conf
>I have clearly named it WORKGROUP
>
>
>
>I have checked my smb config with testpram and it works fine the server
>starts and is running.
>
>
>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.
>
>E./
>smb.conf
>
>
>#======================= Global Settings
>=====================================
>[global]
>        log file = /var/log/samba/smb.log
>        smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
>        name resolve order = wins lmhosts bcast
>        socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>        preserve case = no
>        default case = lower
>        username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
>        domain master = yes
>        encrypt passwords = yes
>        hosts allow = 192.168.1. 192.168.11. 127.
>        passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>        wins support = yes
>        server string = apollo.local
>        unix password sync = Yes
>        local master = yes
>        workgroup = WORKGROUP
>        debug level = 10
>        os level = 65
>        security = user
>        preferred master = yes
>[homes]
>   comment = Home Directories
>   browseable = yes
>   writable = yes
>
>
>[Common]
>comment = Comon File Location
>path = /home/elleme/common
>read only = no
>public = yes
>write list = @elleme-users
>
>
>[Work]
>comment = Working file locatio
>path = /home/elleme/work
>read only = no
>public = yes
>write list = @elleme-users
>
>
>  
>
I think I found the problem ..... kinda its late....

[root at test samba]# testparm smbusers
Load smb config files from smbusers
Unknown parameter encountered: "nobody"
Ignoring unknown parameter "nobody"
Unknown parameter encountered: "erin" <-----are my users unknown or am I 
not importing them correctly
Ignoring unknown parameter "erin" <-----are my users unknown or am I not 
importing them correctly
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions

# Global parameters
[global]
        root directory = administrator admin