Xp/Samba

[Justin Bennett]

I have no problems on other XP machines. Only this one I think it's 
something our help desk guy did. It's like his username is cached.
samba - 2.2.7-security-rollup-fix (from redhat 2.1ES rpms)

Justin Bennett
Network Administrator
RHCE (Redhat Certified Linux Engineer)
Dynabrade, Inc.
8989 Sheridan Dr.
Clarence, NY 14031
 



On 02/27/2004 6:44 PM, Dave Andruczyk wrote:

>What version of samba?  What do you see in the samba logs?
>(/var/log/samba/log.smb)
>How do you have samba configured with regards to security level?
> (security = user/share/domain )
>Are you using "username map" functionality in samba?
>are you using encrypted passwords? (encrypt passwords = yes in smb.conf) 
>necessary for XP unless you applied a registry patch/change to over-ride it.
>
>
>--- Justin Bennett <justin.bennett at dynabrade.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>We have an XP laptop connecting to a samba server (just mentioned to 
>>pretend this is a linux question) whenever the laptop connects to the 
>>samba server it always wants to use a certain username, no matter if I 
>>disconnect all drives, reboot and try to map a drive as a diffrent 
>>username. It always wants to use this one username (which isn't that of 
>>the laptops owner). It's a laptop so it doesn't log into a domain or 
>>anything. No matter what I try I can't get it to connect to the server 
>>as anything other than this certain username, which happens to be our 
>>help desk guy, I've tried searching the registry and can't find any 
>>occurances of this username. Any idea where this may be cached? I tried 
>>to map the drive from the command line with net use and specifying the 
>>username, it gives me a wrong password then. It appears that it is still 
>>trying to map as this one userid.
>>
>>
>>Justin
>> 
>>
>>-- 
>>Justin Bennett
>>Network Administrator
>>RHCE (Redhat Certified Linux Engineer)
>>Dynabrade, Inc.
>>8989 Sheridan Dr.
>>Clarence, NY 14031
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>
>
>=====
>Dave J. Andruczyk
>
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