SAMBA and XP

[Jim Maul]

Paal Marker wrote:
> Jim Maul wrote:
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>> Paal Marker wrote:
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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?
>>>> |
>>>> | 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.
>>>>
>>>> - --
>>>>
>>>> Nathaniel Hall, GSEC
>>>> Intrusion Detection and Firewall Technician
>>>> Ozarks Technical Community College -- Office of Computer Networking
>>>>
>>>> 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
>>
> Well, this problem occured for more than a year ago, and on the site 
> http://www.samba.netfirms.com/PDC.htm I found this sentence and stopped 
> trying to configure:
> 
> "As for Windows XP, one piece of advice.....if you have bought Windows 
> XP home edition, it will not support domain logons. You will need to 
> upgrade to the Pro version."
> 

Access a samba server yes, log onto a domain no.  These are two 
different things.  All i am doing is mapping drives to shares on a samba 
server.  I am not using that samba server for any sort of domain setup. 
  I am running a simple workgroup.

-Jim