samba - Nov 2004 - Windows 2000 Scheduler Permission Problem

Hello,

  I'm struggling with a Samba 3.07 installation on a Debian Sarge system.
  This system is used as a backup server and a scheduler job on a windows
  2000 server should backup some data on that system. The integration of
  samba and the Windows 2000 domain works fine, as long as we interactivly
  access the samba box from the windows server. In this case the user
  is recognized correctly from the samba system. As soon as the job is
  started from the scheduler I can't even access the samba box, because
  there is no user mapped to samba. I got these error message in the
  samba log:

    > check_ntlm_password:  Checking password for unmapped
    > user []\[]@[SERVER] with the new password interface

  If I manually run the job I got this in the log file:

    > check_ntlm_password:  Checking password for unmapped user
    > [DOMAIN]\[Administrator]@[SERVER] with the new password interface


  I already tried to map the samba box using in the job:

    > net use drive: \\sambabox\directory /user:domain\user password

  but even with this there is no user mapping on the samba box. And again
  if run interactivly its working fine, but as a scheduler task its not.

  Any hints to solve that problem would be fine.. thanks in advance.

regards
Lars

W2k by default runs scheduled tasks as "system" user, which isnt a
samba
user. somewhere in the config of the W2K job schedule interface (it may 
be under an "advanced" button) you can change the user that the job
runs
under. Change it to a user who is in your samba system, and can 
read/write the share you want to access.

gordon