Re: Help with samba 3

[Aaron B <kantai@GameBox.net>]

On Saturday 24 July 2004 02:52 pm, David Sanders wrote:
> On Saturday 24 July 2004 12:57 pm, Aaron B wrote:
> > Hi everyone. I'm trying to set up samba 3 to be a client on a Windows NT
> > network. I have smbd running and my hostname ( foo ) configured- not much
> > else.
> >
> > My box appears in the Network Neighborhood on the Windows machines just
> > fine. Also, my workstation has been "allowed" on the network.
> >
> > What baffle me, is that whenever I try to connect to another
> > workstation/server on the network for any reason I get the following.
> >
> > [root@foo]! smbclient //fooman/share pword -U user
> > session setup failed: NT_STATUS_INVALID_WORKSTATION
> >
> > Now, I understand that this error is a result of my workstation not being
> > allowed to access the shares on the network. But, I've already been added
> > to the workgroup.
> >
> > I believe the problem is that smbd is being added to the workgroup, but
> > the connections I try to make with smbclient or smbspool are not going
> > through smbd at all and are therefore invalid workstations.
> >
> > My question is, does anyone know how this can be rectified on either end?
>
> You may need to add the following to /etc/samba/smb.conf
> encrypt passwords = true

I already have that set.

If it changes anything, though, my computer doesn't sync users/passwords with 
the network. If this is the problem, I don't know how to solve it, as the 
smb.conf seems to only mention syncing with Unix.