Re: Samba & Win2K
Hi Jeff,
I have never tried to use win2k with Samba,
so I probably won't be much help.
I do know that for NT workstation, you have to add
the workstation machine name into the smbpasswd file.
You may have already done this.
I also know that for Windows XP there is a reg hack for
domain logins. I don't know if this applies.
I have also seen machines fail to login when DNS was not available.
Hope you get it solved.
Have you tried searching thru the samba list archives.?
Mike
Quoting Jeff Bonner <jeff@integralogic.com>:
> After fooling around with the Samba server in Woody for a few days, I
> just couldn't get any results, even after reading various FAQs and some
> of the docs on samba.org.
>
> The problem is credentials, authentication, whatever you want to call
> it. I can "see" the Debian machine with a Windows 2000 client, I just
> can't browse anything. Depending on how options are set in SWAT, the
> error is either "Incorrect password or unknown username for \\Debian"
> which then prompts me for another username & password, or else a dialog
> that says something to the effect that credentials aren't acceptable,
> with no further chance to modify them (sorry I can't remember the exact
> verbiage at the moment).
>
> I'm sure this is complicated further by having shadow and MD5, because
> I'm not sure where Samba is trying to get the password from: PAM, or
> its own password file, or who knows what else.
>
> Anyway, in one article, I gleaned the following tidbit:
>
> "SAMBA can work with Windows 2000 systems, as long as the latter are
> running in NBT-compatibility mode."
>
> Perhaps this is what's holding me up from making progress here, but I
> don't understand how to enable it; on the Win2K machine, "Enable NetBIOS
> over TCP/IP" is already checked (maybe it should be unchecked?). Also I
> don't know what the implications are for browsing other Windows machines
> when you run in this "compatibility mode".
>
> Does anyone have more information on this, maybe a better HOWTO specific
> to Win2K or some real-world results? A Google search for these keywords
> brings up exactly one hit, the site where that came from in the first
> place.
>
> TIA,
>
> Jeff Bonner
>
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