[plug] Samba Help for a Dunce Please

[Jon L. Miller]

Mike try going to www.samba.org, I found lots of answers to my question and
I believe this one will be in there if memory serves me right.

Jon

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Earnshaw, Mike [mailto:earnshawm at wa.switch.aust.com]
>Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 12:13 PM
>To: PLUG (E-mail)
>Subject: [plug] Samba Help for a Dunce Please
>
>
>List,
>
>I feel I should know the answer to this, so with head bowed low I ask
>...
>
>I have installed Samba 2.0.6. All appears fine apart from the
>dread IPC$
>password request from a Win$low client.
>
>I followed the doco (I thought word for word). The samba box
>is a domain
>member, we are using encrypted passwords, the plaintext password reg
>entry was *not* added to PDC, /etc/passwd was cat'd into /etc/smbpasswd
>with makesmbpasswd.sh, both smbd and nmbd run ok, testparm does not
>report any errors, smbclient -L sambabox -N lists everything
>(I do get a
>password prompt if I omit the -N, but as root <enter> removes that).
>
>This has got to be a password encryption type problem since smbclient
>'\\sambabox\share' -U valid user spits the dummy with bad password pair
>message.
>
>I am going round in circles can some one please throw me a line?
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Mike