Re: XP and Samba.....again

["schmity" <schmity@nctv.com>]

Forgive me, but I'm new and don't know how to set up the smbpasswd file
other than the smbpasswd program.  Is there maybe a template somewhere.

Thanks

Brent

Don Hayward wrote:
> Sorry, I just dropped into this thread, but...
>
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2006, schmity wrote:
>
> > Here is my latest from the command line.  Looks like the problem is a
> > user and password problem.
> >
> > ###############################
> > Linuxbox:/home/brent# smbclient -L linuxbox
> > Password:
> > session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
> > Linuxbox:/home/brent# smbclient -L linuxbox -U brent
> > Password:
> > session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
> > Linuxbox:/home/brent# smbclient -L linuxbox -U root
> > Password:
> > session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
> > Linuxbox:/home/brent# man smbclient
> > Reformatting smbclient(1), please wait...
> > Linuxbox:/home/brent#
> > #################################
> >
> > Of course I type in the correct password every time.
> >
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> I recently had a very similar expeience -- what solved it for me was
> setting up the smbpasswd file on the samba server, adding the relevant
> uid-password pairs, and telling samba to use encrypted..  Without this
> I couldn't get connected, even though I told samba not to use
> encrypted passwords and told XP to send passwords in plaintext.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Don
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