HPUX11i Samba & WindowsXP

[Rob Daniels]

Hi all,
on our hp9000/rp2470 11i samba works fine in combination with windows 98.
When I try to connect on a pc with windowsXP I have to connect with an another user name because it keeps telling me I am a 'guest'. So when I change the connect another user it works fine but when I restart the computer it won't connect automaticly at login (and I said it should). Somehow I can't get the right user on windowsxp.
Anyone can help me please?

[U.SivaKumar_2]

Hi,

Enable encrypted password option in smb.conf

Encryted Password = yes

Restart the samba.

If the problem arises again , try using user level security instead of share-level security

regards,
U.SivaKumar

[Rob Daniels]

Hi,

encrypted password = yes, gives me more problems: I can't connect anymore because it said 'wrong password'. User lever security won't help either.

regards
Rob

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Hi,

check this on your XP

; This registry key is needed for a Windows XP Client to join
; and logon to a Samba domain. Note: Samba 2.2.3a contained
; this key in a broken format which did nothing to the registry -
; however XP reported "registry key imported". If in doubt
; check the key by hand with regedit.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Netlogon\Parameters]
"requiresignorseal"=dword:00000000

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

[Rob Daniels]

Hi Robert,

at this moment I have some other problems so I won't be able to verify/adjust/test your solution.

I'll let you know some time later.

Thanks for your response!

regards
rob

[Rob Daniels]

Hi Robert,

thank you very much for your support! Samba and windows XP work fine now.
There's one little problem left. When I restart the PC I see the mapped samba drives. However when I click on it, I have to enter the password. How can I make windows xp remember the password so it opens the maps without asking for a password?

Best regards
Rob

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Hi Rob,

glad I could help,

take a look at this question, think it will give some answers for you.

http://www.matrixlist.com/pipermail/pc_support/2002-July/001717.html

Kind regards,

Robert-Jan.

[Darren Prior]

Hi,

WinXP will be passing the current user name and password for authentication, so if your user name on the WinXP side doesn't match one on Samba (or isn't mapped to a valid one using "username map=") then Samba won't be able to authenticate your user.

If you manually connected to the share you'd see this in Samba's logs as a failed authentication with your WinXP username, followed by the share connecting when you put your Samba username and password into the dialog box.

regards,

Darren.

[Mark Landin]

I've been setting my Samba servers to security=domain. Since the UNIX user id's and the domain user id's are the same, this works fine. They never have to enter a password because the password that Windows 2000 uses has already been "blessed" by the domain controller, so when Samba asks the domain controller "is this the password for this user?" the domain controller should always answer "yup".

If your userid's aren't the same between UNIX and your domain, this probably won't work for you.

[Mark Landin]

BTW, Rob, be sure to award points to the people who are helping you. :) It's their ONLY reward :)