samba - Mar 2003 - Samba from win2k client - "incorrect password or unknown username" error

Hi,

I've got an annoying little problem with Samba and Win2k. I installed a
Win2k
Pro client on the network and set it to use plain text passwords and join the 
workgroup.

The username and password of the user on the win2k box are the same as the 
account in /etc/passwd on the linux box. But after logging in, when trying to 
reconnect the mapped drives the windows box says:

"Incorrect password or unknown username for: \\linuxbox\share"

After typing in the password (the same password as just entered to log into 
windows) the box can access the mapped drives with no problems. Has anyone 
else seen this? Its not like I can't access the shares, its just I have to 
put in the password again after logging into Windows.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

James

Le 29/03/2003 20:46, ??James Wilford?? <james@jwilford.co.uk> a ?crit?:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got an annoying little problem with Samba and Win2k. I installed a
Win2k
> Pro client on the network and set it to use plain text passwords and join
the
> workgroup.
> 
> The username and password of the user on the win2k box are the same as the
> account in /etc/passwd on the linux box. But after logging in, when trying
to
> reconnect the mapped drives the windows box says:
> 
> "Incorrect password or unknown username for: \\linuxbox\share"
<snip>


*** Had the same problem. Life is too short to try and understand Win2k
brainstorms so this is what I did:

- Instruct user to hit "Esc" twice after login to get rid of the error
window.

- Created a *.bat file which is in user "Start up" folder and which
mounts
the shares automatically:

@ECHO OFF
echo. "............................"
echo. ""
echo. "   Mounting Linux drives"
echo. ""
echo. "............................"
net use D: \\[server_name]\[share] [PASSWORD]

or this if you're connecting to a domain server

net use D: \\[server_name]\[share] /USER:[DOMAIN]\[DOMAIN_USER_NAME]
[DOMAIN_PASSWORD]

P.S. On one line!


Have fun.

--
Cheers,
Zoran.

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