Hi, i installed samba 3.0.10 from scratch (downloaded and compiled the beast) on my debian linux (kernel 2.6.10). i joined the windows 2003 domain and that was successful, i also use winbind and when i perform a wbinfo -u of wbinfo -g, i see all the users and groups. I also shared some directories, changed my smb.conf file and restarted the daemons and i try to get on my samba server with one of my XP pc's. So, when i do "\\10.51.11.31" on my XP i get a logon window: connecting to 10.51.11.31 user name: password: i don't know why because normally i should see the directories, right ?? and i doesn't matter what username and password i fill in, it's rejected. this is my smb.conf file: #======================= Global Settings ====================== [global] ## Browsing/Identification ### # Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of workgroup = BRUGGE netbios name = debby # server string is the equivalent of the NT Description field server string = %h server (Samba %v) # Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section: # WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable its WINS Server wins support = no # WINS Server - Tells the NMBD components of Samba to be a WINS Client # Note: Samba can be either a WINS Server, or a WINS Client, but NOT both ; wins server = w.x.y.z # This will prevent nmbd to search for NetBIOS names through DNS. dns proxy = no # What naming service and in what order should we use to resolve host names # to IP addresses ; name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast #### Debugging/Accounting #### # This tells Samba to use a separate log file for each machine # that connects log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m # Put a capping on the size of the log files (in Kb). max log size = 1000 # If you want Samba to only log through syslog then set the following # parameter to 'yes'. ; syslog only = no # We want Samba to log a minimum amount of information to syslog. Everything # should go to /var/log/samba/log.{smbd,nmbd} instead. If you want to log # through syslog you should set the following parameter to something higher. syslog = 0 # Do something sensible when Samba crashes: mail the admin a backtrace panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d ####### Authentication ####### # "security = user" is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account # in this server for every user accessing the server. See # /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/ServerType.html in the samba-doc # package for details. security = domain local master = no os level = 30 domain master = no preferred master = no password server = * domain logons = no # You may wish to use password encryption. See the section on # 'encrypt passwords' in the smb.conf(5) manpage before enabling. encrypt passwords = yes # If you are using encrypted passwords, Samba will need to know what # password database type you are using. passdb backend = tdbsam guest obey pam restrictions = yes ; guest account = nobody ; invalid users = root # This boolean parameter controls whether Samba attempts to sync the Unix # password with the SMB password when the encrypted SMB password in the # passdb is changed. ; unix password sync = no # For Unix password sync to work on a Debian GNU/Linux system, the following # parameters must be set (thanks to Augustin Luton <aluton@hybrigenics.fr> for # sending the correct chat script for the passwd program in Debian Potato). passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX \spassword:* %n\n . # This boolean controls whether PAM will be used for password changes # when requested by an SMB client instead of the program listed in # 'passwd program'. The default is 'no'. ; pam password change = no ########## Printing ########## # If you want to automatically load your printer list rather # than setting them up individually then you'll need this ; load printers = yes # lpr(ng) printing. You may wish to override the location of the # printcap file ; printing = bsd ; printcap name = /etc/printcap # CUPS printing. See also the cupsaddsmb(8) manpage in the # cupsys-client package. ; printing = cups ; printcap name = cups # When using [print$], root is implicitly a 'printer admin', but you can # also give this right to other users to add drivers and set printer # properties ; printer admin = @ntadmin ######## File sharing ######## # Name mangling options ; preserve case = yes ; short preserve case = yes ############ Misc ############ # Using the following line enables you to customise your configuration # on a per machine basis. The %m gets replaced with the netbios name # of the machine that is connecting ; include = /home/samba/etc/smb.conf.%m # Most people will find that this option gives better performance. # See smb.conf(5) and /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/speed.html # for details # You may want to add the following on a Linux system: # SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192 socket options = TCP_NODELAY # The following parameter is useful only if you have the linpopup package # installed. The samba maintainer and the linpopup maintainer are # working to ease installation and configuration of linpopup and samba. ; message command = /bin/sh -c '/usr/bin/linpopup "%f" "%m" %s; rm %s' & # Domain Master specifies Samba to be the Domain Master Browser. If this # machine will be configured as a BDC (a secondary logon server), you # must set this to 'no'; otherwise, the default behavior is recommended. ; domain master = auto # Some defaults for winbind (make sure you're not using the ranges # for something else.) ; idmap uid = 10000-20000 ; idmap gid = 10000-20000 ; template shell = /bin/bash winbind cache time = 10 template shell = /bin/bash winbind separator = + idmap uid = 10000 - 20000 idmap gid = 10000 - 20000 winbind enum users = yes winbind enum groups = yes #======================= Share Definitions ====================== [homes] comment = Home Directories browseable = yes # By default, the home directories are exported read-only. Change next # parameter to 'yes' if you want to be able to write to them. writable = no # File creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to # create files with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775. create mask = 0700 # Directory creation mask is set to 0700 for security reasons. If you want to # create dirs. with group=rw permissions, set next parameter to 0775. directory mask = 0700 # Un-comment the following and create the netlogon directory for Domain Logons # (you need to configure Samba to act as a domain controller too.) ;[netlogon] ; comment = Network Logon Service ; path = /home/samba/netlogon ; guest ok = yes ; writable = no ; share modes = no [printers] comment = All Printers browseable = no path = /tmp printable = yes public = no writable = no create mode = 0700 # Windows clients look for this share name as a source of downloadable # printer drivers [print$] comment = Printer Drivers path = /var/lib/samba/printers browseable = yes read only = yes guest ok = no # Uncomment to allow remote administration of Windows print drivers. # Replace 'ntadmin' with the name of the group your admin users are # members of. ; write list = root, @ntadmin # A sample share for sharing your CD-ROM with others. ;[cdrom] ; comment = Samba server's CD-ROM ; writable = no ; locking = no ; path = /cdrom ; public = yes # The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a CD-ROM when the # cdrom share is accesed. For this to work /etc/fstab must contain # an entry like this: # # /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0 # # The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the connection to the # # If you don't want to use auto-mounting/unmounting make sure the CD # is mounted on /cdrom # ; preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom ; postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom [test] comment = test path = /movies browseable = yes writable = yes read only = no guest ok = yes [shared] comment = shared path = /data/shares browseable = yes writable = yes read only = no guest ok = yes ....and this is what i get in my log files: [2005/01/27 09:07:43, 0] auth/auth_util.c:make_server_info_info3(1134) make_server_info_info3: pdb_init_sam failed! [2005/01/27 09:07:43, 0] auth/auth_util.c:make_server_info_info3(1134) make_server_info_info3: pdb_init_sam failed! [2005/01/27 09:07:43, 0] auth/auth_util.c:make_server_info_info3(1134) make_server_info_info3: pdb_init_sam failed! any idea ??? cheers, Mr. D.