samba - Nov 1999 - Getting a "Incorrect Parameter" error on Win98 from the Samba Logon.

Hi all,

I've got a very serious problem here, where nobody can logon to my new
(fresh) v6.1 installation of RedHat from their Win98 workstations.

When trying to logon from the Win98 machines we get a dialog box coming
up with the title Microsoft Networking and the text: 'Incorrect
Parameter'.

Looking at the samba logs on the Linux box, I can see in the log.nmb
file the following lines:

[1999/11/28 22:26:41, 1]
nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(69)
  process_logon_packet: Logon from 192.168.1.20: code = 0
[1999/11/28 22:26:41, 3]
nmbd/nmbd_processlogon.c:process_logon_packet(86)
  process_logon_packet: Domain login request from DOUGALL at IP
192.168.1.20 use
r=PAUL token=ffff
[1999/11/28 22:26:49, 3]
nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:process_host_announce(117)
  process_host_announce: from DOUGALL<00> IP 192.168.1.20 to
MAGIC<1d>
for serve
r DOUGALL.
[1999/11/28 22:26:49, 3] nmbd/nmbd_serverlistdb.c:write_browse_list(457)

  write_browse_list: Wrote browse list into file
/var/lock/samba/browse.dat
[1999/11/28 22:27:49, 3]
nmbd/nmbd_incomingdgrams.c:process_host_announce(117)
  process_host_announce: from DOUGALL<00> IP 192.168.1.20 to
MAGIC<1d>
for serve
r DOUGALL.

This is with debugging set to 3.

I've no idea where to look, since obviously Samba is providing something
dodgy to Win98, but this was working earlier today!  (grrr).

It doesn't matter what user/password you type, you get the same error,
which points me to an error in NMBD rather than SMBD, but I'm buggered
if I can work it out.

I tried all of the steps in the DIAGNOSTICS.TXT file, and I they all
worked except for STEP 8 onwards.  The help here is: 'fixup the nmbd
installation'.  Ok, how?

Can anyone give me some clues of where to look?

Please reply to me in the CC header as well, since I'm not subscribed to
the list.

Cheers,

Paul.

Paul,

Most often this is seen when the netbios name and workgoup 
parameters in your smb.conf have the same parameters.





Cheers,
jerry
________________________________________________________________________
                            Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
Engineering Network Services                           Auburn University 
jerry@eng.auburn.edu             http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw

       "...a hundred billion castaways looking for a home."
                                  - Sting "Message in a Bottle" ( 1979
)

Jerry,

This was the problem - thanks a lot!

Is this documented somewhere, which I missed?

Cheers,

Paul.

On Mon, 29 Nov 1999, Gerald Carter wrote:
> Paul,
> 
> Most often this is seen when the netbios name and workgoup 
> parameters in your smb.conf have the same parameters.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> jerry
> ________________________________________________________________________
>                             Gerald ( Jerry ) Carter	
> Engineering Network Services                           Auburn University 
> jerry@eng.auburn.edu             http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/cartegw
> 
>        "...a hundred billion castaways looking for a home."
>                                   - Sting "Message in a Bottle" (
1979 )
>