Re: samba failure question

[<karlp ourldsfamily com>]

Log in as root and type the following command:

smbadduser linuxloginname:name_of_a_windows_macjine

*using your spellings there; hope you don't mind*

The theory is that if you don't have a PC (netbios name, which is the same
as the name the user logged into windows with, I.e., if they cancel out of
the windows password prompt, or login with a different name they will never
connect) login name mapped to a Linux login name, they can't connect.

Of course that's assuming you are using encrypted passwords in smb.conf AND
mapping passwords to Unix passwords.

If those options aren't set, do it, then run

/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart

Have some fun...

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On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Thomas wrote:

>Hi Everyone
>
>I have samba installed on my red hat server...everything seems to work fine with two exceptions...
>
>1) you can't browse the network from a windows machine, i.e if you look at the newtork with explorer it doesnt work,
>
>2) I notice on my server that I am getting the followng error message
>
>   " master samba (pam_unix) [1599]: authentication failure;
logname=uid=0 euid=0 tty=samba ruser= rhost=name_of_a_windows_macjine
user=nobody"
>
>
>Does anyone have any thoughts or info in the matter, as I have said the resources that I have shared work so far, but I would like to be able to browse the network and to get rid of that annoying message. As for the message I'm not quite sure, what does it mean that a machine is not being "authenticated"?
>
>sincerley
>Thomas
>
>
>
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