samba - Jun 1999 - Problem with Samba: "The account is not authorized to login from this station"

I am having a problem configuring Samba to work with my NT mahcines. I
can see the linux server from my NT machines. Under security=user, when
I attempt to browse the linux machine's shares, it asks for a username
and password, and then fails, telling me "The account is not authorized
to login from this station." If I set security = share, I can browse the
shares, but when I try and open my home directory, it gives me the same
error. All this is using the default smb.conf (that came with RedHat
5.1) except for a change in the workgroup name.

Ideas?

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Hi Ashvin!

Either use smbpasswd -a [username] [password] to add an encrypted password
to the smbpasswd-file and use encrypted passwords = yes in the smb.conf or
just use NT4_PlainTextPassword.reg, which resides in the docs directory
of the samba distribution.

Let me know if it helped.

Bye, Levent


> I am having a problem configuring Samba to work with my NT mahcines. I
> can see the linux server from my NT machines. Under security=user, when
> I attempt to browse the linux machine's shares, it asks for a username
> and password, and then fails, telling me "The account is not
authorized
> to login from this station." If I set security = share, I can browse
the
> shares, but when I try and open my home directory, it gives me the same
> error. All this is using the default smb.conf (that came with RedHat
> 5.1) except for a change in the workgroup name.
>

Hi Asvhin!

Puh! I`m getting tired to answer the same questions all the time. How about
putting together a
FAQ and post it regularly to this list?

Well, Samba uses clear text passwords by default. There are two ways to fix
this:
the first, more simple way, is to enable clear text passwords of all
clients. Use
the NT4_PlainPassword.reg file, which resides in the docs directory of your
samba distribution. After a reboot, all NT machines should be able to
use shares (and home directories) of the server with security = user.

The second way is to enable encrypted passwords with samba. I`m using
Samba 2.0.4 to accomplish this. You also need to add each users password
via "smbpasswd -a [user] [password]" (without the quotes) to make
samba
store the password hashes.

Hope it helps. (Please put this into the FAQ, I`ve answered this many
times... Thanks.)

Bye,
 Levent.


> I am having a problem configuring Samba to work with my NT mahcines. I
> can see the linux server from my NT machines. Under security=user, when
> I attempt to browse the linux machine's shares, it asks for a username
> and password, and then fails, telling me "The account is not
authorized
> to login from this station." If I set security = share, I can browse
the
> shares, but when I try and open my home directory, it gives me the same
> error. All this is using the default smb.conf (that came with RedHat
> 5.1) except for a change in the workgroup name.
>