samba - Jan 2000 - Access problem

Hello all,

I have been trying to set up Samba on our Linux Redhat 6.1 server for some
time now. (Our clients are all Windows NT 4.0.)
And it seems to work, except that it is working only on my machine.

When I double click on our server via Network Neighborhood, it prompts for
the UNIX user name/password. I can login without a problem from my machine,
but if I do the same on somebody else's machine, it says:

\\server is not accessible.
The account is not authorized to login from this station.

(But server at least shows up in their Network Neighborhood)

Network setting on all our machines are exactly the same (except for each
machine's IP addr), and I just can't seem to figure out why it's
working on
my machine, but not on others.

I tried tests in DIAGNOSIS.txt, and noticed that test 8 (type the command
"net view \\BIGSERVER") passes on my machine, but not on others. When
tried
on other machine, it says:

System error 5 has occured.
Access is denied.

So, I followed one suggestion that was listed in DIAGNOSIS.txt. I added the
"IP address of BIGSERVER to the "wins server" box in the advanced
tcp/ip
setup on the PC," but to no avail.

Samba's working even when I removed the IP address from wins server box on
my machine...

Just in case, following is my smb.conf:

# Global parameters
[global]
	workgroup = QUILL
	server string = Samba Server
	passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd
	log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
	max log size = 50
	dns proxy = No
	socket options = TCP_NODELAY

[homes]
	comment = Home Directories
	read only = No
	create mask = 0750
	browseable = No

[printers]
	comment = All Printers
	path = /var/spool/samba
	create mask = 0750
	print ok = Yes
	browseable = No

[public]
	path = /home/shared
	public = Yes
	read only = No
	writable = Yes
	create mask = 0777
	guest ok = Yes

Any help would be appreciated greatly.
Thank you very much in advance...

- arnick

On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 10:53:45 +1100, hai scritto:
>I have been trying to set up Samba on our Linux Redhat 6.1 server for some
>time now. (Our clients are all Windows NT 4.0.)
>And it seems to work, except that it is working only on my machine.
Probably your nt is < sp3 and the other nt's are >=sp3.
nt >= sp3 uses encrypted passwords.
Read ENCRYPTION.txt then either enable encrypted passwords on samba
(preferred) or disable them on the other nt.

-- 
giulioo@pobox.com

Hi,
I have been having the exact same problem with my server I have been trying
to setup, with the exception that I am in a 98/NT enviornment and I get the
same error message on everybody's Windows-Based machine, except that NT will
ask me for both a username and password, and 98 just asks me for a password.
I have also included my smb.conf file if this helps.
Thanks for your help in advance,
Ben

[global]
        workgroup = STONEGROUND
        netbios name = STONE-27
        server string = Samba %v
        interfaces = eth0
        passwd program = /usr/bin/smbpasswd
        log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
        max log size = 50
        socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
        dns proxy = No
        guest ok = Yes
        security = user

[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        path = /home
        read only = No
        [printers]
        comment = All Printers
        path = /var/spool/samba
        print ok = Yes
        browseable = No

[tmp]
        comment = Temporary file space
        path = /tmp
        read only = No

[public]
        comment = Public Stuff
        path = /home/public
        write list = @staff
        read only = No
        guest only = Yes

[/]
        path = /tmp