samba - May 2005 - Samba server suddenly started asking for authentication of the us ers

Samba Server Name: hamilton
Samba Server OS: HP-UX 11.11
Samba Version: 2.2.3.a

Hi All,
I have the same version of Samba running on many of our HP servers with almost
identical smb.conf file and configured the same way. No other Samba server seem
to be having any problems except this one (hamilton). When a legitimate user
tries to access a Samba share from a Windows client, it asks for his/her User
name & password, and it won't accept the user's current network id
& password.

Can anyone advise as to what might be the problem and how to fix it. Many thanks
in advance.

Regards,

Majid Chavoshi
Unix Systems Administrator

Belkin Corporation
Information Services
310-604-2098 Office
310-604-2022 Fax
310-877-1428 Mobile
MajidC@belkin.com
www.belkin.com


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There is not enough information to make a guess.  Send me (off-list) 
your smb.conf.  Also, set your log level to 5 and "log file = 
/var/opt/samba/log.%m", then attempt the share mount, and send me the 
log file (log.machine name).

Whatever the outcome, you will need to upgrade your Samba version.  If 
you are using HP CIFS Server, you can stay on 2.2 - we still supply and 
support 2.2.12.  You can also upgrade to 3.0.8.  If you are using 
opensource, then you should go to 3.0.14a.

Eric Roseme
Hewlett-Packard
eroseme@emonster.rose.hp.com

Majid Chavoshi wrote:
> Samba Server Name: hamilton
> Samba Server OS: HP-UX 11.11
> Samba Version: 2.2.3.a
> 
> Hi All,
> I have the same version of Samba running on many of our HP servers with
almost identical smb.conf file and configured the same way. No other Samba
server seem to be having any problems except this one (hamilton). When a
legitimate user tries to access a Samba share from a Windows client, it asks for
his/her User name & password, and it won't accept the user's current
network id & password.
> 
> Can anyone advise as to what might be the problem and how to fix it. Many
thanks in advance.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Majid Chavoshi
> Unix Systems Administrator
> 
> Belkin Corporation
> Information Services
> 310-604-2098 Office
> 310-604-2022 Fax
> 310-877-1428 Mobile
> MajidC@belkin.com
> www.belkin.com
> 
> 
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