*********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 5/15/2003 at 3:21 PM William Hooper wrote: >Shane C Branch said: >[snip] >>>Can't help you with that, because I've always had DNS and/or WINS to do >>>name resolution. If you are using broadcasts I believe that it takes a >>>maximum of 12 minutes to get on the browse list. Are you talking about >>> on >>>the local machine? For example: >>> >>>[whooper@xxxxxxxx ~] $ smbclient -L myserver >> >> Yes, I was running the command on the local machine. When I try to login >> to a >> share from a windows client, I am just repeatedly prompted for user name >> and >> password. Also, doing net view \\servername from the windows box reports: >> system error 5 has occurred, access is denied >[snip] > >That sounds like either the "encrypt passwords" setting is wrong in your >smb.conf, or you haven't set up the samba users correctly. See "man >smbpasswd". > encrypt passwords is set to yes, it's set to synch with system passwords. smbusers has a valid entry for the name i have been using to try and connect, but i still get refused. so i turned off encrypted pw and set my windows box to send clear text, and it still didn't work. i did read that man file, but it didn't help much. i would really like it to use encrypted pw and also have it sync to system accounts. i also have to set up a website on there that must be pw protected, and some of those users will need access to samba shares. i want to make the administration as painless as possible, without compromising too much security. regards, shane.
