samba - Jan 1998 - NT - Not allowed from this workstation

I am the sysadmin in an office with an overabundance of Win95 machines and
a few NT 4.0 workstations.  All installs went relatively easy for logon
scripts, wins, etc.  I have run into a semi-serious problem with 2 of the
3 NT workstations. (All running the same service pack - 1).

When trying to make a share from one of the 2 remaining workstations, I
will recevie an error message saying that:

The account is not authorized to login from this workstation.

I have tried to force the issue by adding a "allow hosts" entry into
the
smb.conf, but I still get the same message.

My hope was that someone else has setup NT workstations in their office
and has run into this same problem. By seeing one out of the three
workstations not having a problem, I am led to beleive it is a WinNT
config problem, although all settings are identical on the surface.

Anyone have some ideas?

Michael Giles
System Administrator
Livewire Incorporated
(352) 373-7090

> When trying to make a share from one of the 2 remaining workstations, I
> will recevie an error message saying that:
> 
> The account is not authorized to login from this workstation.
Sounds familiair. After a two-day fight with samba servers, NT
workstations, NT servers and win95 clients we finally found a config that
will serve all of these...

Compile the latest samba so it has the correct libaries for dealing with
NT encrypted passwords.
*Don't* set encrypt passwords = yes (otherwise some win95 clients can't
get in).
Do use smbpasswd to set passwords for people.

So far (fingers crossed) this works for us and lets users locally and
remote access our servers.

                                                   Koos

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> I am the sysadmin in an office with an overabundance of Win95 machines and
> a few NT 4.0 workstations.  All installs went relatively easy for logon
> scripts, wins, etc.  I have run into a semi-serious problem with 2 of the
> 3 NT workstations. (All running the same service pack - 1).
> When trying to make a share from one of the 2 remaining workstations, I
> will recevie an error message saying that:
> The account is not authorized to login from this workstation.
Had a similar problem here (but with Service Pack 3...)
Try re-enabling "Plain Text Passwords"; read the WinNT.txt
file in the Samba/docs directory:

	Run regedt32.exe and locate the hive key entry:
	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\system\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rdr\Parameters\

	Add the following value:
		EnablePlainTextPassword:REG_DWORD=1