samba - Sep 2000 - samba 2.0.5a and win2000

Hello,

I have tried to get samba 2.0.5a on Debian Linux (kernel 2.0.36) working
with window$ 2000 Professional clients, but browsing in win exploder
doesn't work. win98 works perfectly so the problem must be in some
security issue that's different in w2k. The win2k client sees the Linux
box ok in the network nh, but that's it.

If I give absolute path (net use x: \\linuxbox\sharename) to net use
command I can mount samba shares. net view \\linuxbox gives 'System
error 1727' and 'remote procedure call failed and did not execute'.

First time after reboot w2k client asks for password but after entering
one the same error message comes up.

I've also tried the newest samba release, but then nothing works, not
even with win98 (due to kernel version ??). Putting the registry update
into win2k (enable plain password)  and changing the encrypt password no in
smb.conf doesn't help.

The linux box running samba is also WINS server for our network, isn't
nmbd the one who's responsible of browsing functions in samba?

I think the problem is not with name resolution because wins works fine
with all our windows machines. Only protocol we use is TCP/IP.

Thanks, Juha

Sorry for the delay, I'm behind on Samba mail..

[Juha Pesonen <jp@grenwill.com>]
> I have tried to get samba 2.0.5a on Debian Linux (kernel 2.0.36)
> working with window$ 2000 Professional clients, but browsing in win
> exploder doesn't work.
Windows 2000 has several known "issues" with Samba 2.0.5a.  Some are
resolved in 2.0.6 and others in 2.0.7.  As I recall, almost all are
actually bugs in Windows, which Samba works around, not that that
matters in a practical sense.  Note that Samba-as-domain-controller
will not work with Windows 2000 at all (except some alpha versions).
> I've also tried the newest samba release, but then nothing works, not
> even with win98 (due to kernel version ??).
Known problem with Debian's 2.0.7 package.  The problem is that Eloy
compiled Samba with 2.2 kernel headers.  Rebuilding from source
(apt-get -b source samba && dpkg -i samba_2.0.7*.deb) should fix it.

Peter