Samba Problems

[Kevin O'Connor]

David,

It sounds like the WinBlows box isn't resolving IP from hostname.

You might take a look at:

http://www.tcimet.net/support/hostsfil.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q228/7/60.asp

Kevin


David Demland wrote:
> 
> I changed the passwords to match but I still get the same error message when
> I run the smbclient. The funny thing is that if I used Windoblose Exploiter
> and type in the IP address, the computer shows up in it's workgroup, but the
> IP is listed as the computer name. hat could be causing this?
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> David Demland
> Qa/Testing Manager
> CADTEL Systems, Inc.
> 11201 N. Tatum Ste. 200
> Phoenix, AZ 85028
> (602) 953-4888
> Fax: (602) 953-4833
> ddemland@cadtel.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Roger
> Prutsman
> Sent: Friday, November 03, 2000 8:34 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Samba Problems
> 
> I had this problem once when I was only trying to
> share my home directories, using encryption set to
> yes. I had to create user accounts on the unix side
> using the smbpasswd utility. The syntax is smbpasswd
> -a <user id>. Set the password with smbpasswd <user
> id> to whatever is on the windows side, and you should
> be able to see the shares. Hope this helps...
> 
> --- David Demland <ddemland@cadtel.com> wrote:
> > I am having problems with the Samba install I have
> > on a Storm box. I could
> > not understand why the Windblose boxes could not see
> > the shares. Then I ran
> > the smbclient on the Storm box. I used users I know
> > exist on the box and I
> > came up with the same error message:
> >
> > Tree Connect failed: ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password
> > - name/password pair in
> > a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.)
> >
> > What is causing this and how do I fix it. I can
> > still get onto swat as the
> > root but I can not get the share to be seen by the
> > rest of the network.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thank You,
> >
> > David Demland
> > Qa/Testing Manager
> > CADTEL Systems, Inc.
> > 11201 N. Tatum Ste. 200
> > Phoenix, AZ 85028
> > (602) 953-4888
> > Fax: (602) 953-4833
> > ddemland@cadtel.com
> >
> >
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