Samba: the account is not authorized to log in

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 23 20:48:02 UTC 2007


On 6/23/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com> wrote:
> >> > I cannot connect from a Windows2000 virtual machine (VMware Server) to
> >> > a samba directory, as I get (in Windows2000) the following message:
> >> >
> >> > "The account is not authorized to log in from this station". The
> >> > output of 'testparm' is below.
> >> >
> >> > Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Dumb question - did you add the user you want to log in as using
> >> "smbpasswd -a"? Samba has to maintain its own password database when
> >> using encrypted passwords because Windows Networking uses a
> >> different encryption algorithm. (You can configure Samba to use a
> >> domain controller instead for passwords...)
> >
> > Thanks, Mikkel. Yes, I did use "smbpasswd -a". Any further ideas?
> >
> I missed it the first time I looked - you are not using encrypted
> passwords. (encrypt passwords = no ) If I remember correctly,
> Windows 2k will not use plain text passwords without a registry
> patch. So you are going to want to change your Samba config to use
> encrypted passwords.

I think there is here a bug. In fact, I was able at the end to have
the shared directory being shared between F7 and Windows2000 (VMware
Server). However, the problem returns after a reboot. Any comments?

Paul




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