[Fwd: Re: XP logon to SAMBA]

Robert Meyer meyer_rm at yahoo.com
Fri May 7 13:56:50 EDT 2004


You need to add the machine to the domain before you can log in.  That means
that you need to create a domain account for the MACHINE, along with the users.

Cheers!

Bob
--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> ---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
> Subject: Re: XP logon to SAMBA
> From:    "Cyber Source" <peter at thecybersource.com>
> Date:    Fri, May 7, 2004 12:33 pm
> To:      "Carl Yost Jr" <carlyos at buffalo.com>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I did that. I saved your email from a long time ago and took all the (I
> think) relative info from your smb.conf example and put them in. Currently
> when I log onto my XP box, I can see my home folder in the network share,
> etc. But if I try to join the domain, it keeps telling me access denied
> and invalid user name and/or password.
> 1. Does anything need to be in this *.bat file or does it just need to see
> it in there?
> 2. I saw a post somewhere where they said xp clients needed to "tone down"
> some security options in the local security sections, like requiring
> digitally encrypted signatures and the like, so I took there advise and
> disabled them (3 options about digital encrypt with domains).
> It should be seeing the domain, because it tells me that I have access
> denied, etc and telling me I have the wrong name/password. And I can see
> my home in the network places, etc. The samba logs all say I am a domain
> controller, no error messages, etc.
> So any ideas as to what could be wrong?
> 
> 
> > Let me know if you need any help. The %U.bat is for username.bat. So if
> you create the login scripts per user just name the script the
> > username.bat. Then when they login their machine looks for their
> username file for the script.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
> > Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 09:18:01 -0400
> > To: carlyos at buffalo.com, nflug at nflug.org
> > Subject: XP logon to SAMBA
> >
> >> This was a subject a while ago. I am trying to setup xp domain logins
> to SAMBA. Carl sent me his copy of smb.conf file and a brief
> explanation. I am getting stuck on the "logon script = %U.bat" line.
> Just exactly how does this logon script get made? What is needed in it
> and where should it reside? Any help? Thanks,
> >
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