[Techtalk] samba problem

[Chantal Rosmuller]

Thank you Rudy, I found it
there was no unix account for the user, I totally forgot that that was
necessary, stupid stupid
anyway everything works !
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 23:58, Rudy L. Zijlstra wrote:
> Chantal,
> 
> yet the behaviour you are seeing is an authorization problem.
> 
> Either the password is wrong, or the password is compared to the wrong 
> master, or samba is incapable of verifying the password.
> One of the things to check is whether you have a unix account. It must 
> exist for all security levels except share.
> You may want to look into this.
> Also taking out a network sniffer and checking whether the not-working 
> samba server is communicating with the win2k domain server would help.
> Another option is to increase the debug (log) level in smb.conf and 
> taking a good look at the resulting log file. I've had good results 
> using log level to hunt down problems.
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> Rudy
> 
> Chantal Rosmuller wrote:
> 
> >Hi Rudy
> >
> >the password server=dc01
> >I added it to /etc/hosts so I'm sure it can find it.
> >and yes you are right I am running redhat 9.0
> >
> >  
> >
> [big snip]
> 
> >>>>>
> >>>>>we have a windows 2000 domain controller, both linuxservers can ping it.
> >>>>>when I try to access the "not-working" share it asks for a password,
> >>>>>after typing the correct password it asks for the password again.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>On the working samba server I use version 2.2.7-3.7.3, on the not workin
> >>>>>one 2.2.7a-8.9.0, but I dont think it has anything to do with the
> >>>>>problem.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Chantal
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
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