SAMBA and XP

[Marty Landman]

At 10:48 AM 2/18/2005, 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,

Try adding a user with the same id as on your XP box. Then use smbpasswd to 
create a password for the Linux user which is the same as the password for 
that user on XP. AFAIK the Linux pw doesn't have to be the same as the 
Samba pw, but I keep them all consistent just to make it easier to follow.

Of course depending on your security req's you might need something better 
than this.

hth,

Marty


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