SAMBA and XP

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Nathaniel Hall wrote:

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> Hogue, Russ wrote:
> | I know I am missing something simple, but my users can access SAMBA 
> from
> | all operating systems (older versions of Windows) except from Windows
> | XP, it never accepts the credentials from the client...any ideas?
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> | Russ
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> I have found that you don't have to have the same username and password
> for both machines.  I am using Samba and Windows XP together without
> problems.  When you go to the share, you will be prompted for your
> username and password.  Try using sambaserver\username (where
> sambaserver is the name or IP of the server hosting samaba and username
> is the samba user) and the password for the username.  I believe the
> issue is that it is trying to authenticate with the XP box, not Samba.
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> Nathaniel Hall, GSEC
> Intrusion Detection and Firewall Technician
> Ozarks Technical Community College -- Office of Computer Networking
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> halln at otc.edu
> 417-447-7535
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I had a problem long time ago with XP that could not log on samba. The 
problem was that the user  had installed XP home-edition, wich does not 
work with samba-server as it has no support for it.  We found at that 
time that it excisted no work-arounds. XP-pro had no problems working 
with samba-server.  Is it XP-pro you have installed? If it is 
home-edition you will have to upgrade to pro.