SAMBA and XP

[Jim Maul]

Paal Marker wrote:
> Nathaniel Hall wrote:
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>> Hogue, Russ wrote:
>> | I know I am missing something simple, but my users can access SAMBA 
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>> | 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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>> - --
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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.
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I have samba running on a centos server at home and my xp home 
workstation accesses it just fine...

-Jim