samba user can not map the unix home in window explorer

[jane zhang]

Hi all,
I have one samba user trying to map his unix dir in his window NT4 explorer and it keeps telling us incorrect passwd or username. but it is indeed the corrected ones.

I tried to map my own dir in his PC and it showed up in the explorer.

Something is wrong with the user's account? is there any way to correct this?

Thanks,
Jane

[Steven E. Protter]

smbpasswd username password on the Unix box.

Steve.

Upload your smb.conf file if you want me to look at that for you.

Steve

[Chakravarthi]

on NT you need to enable plain text password authentication,

do following

run regedit
go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\rdr\parameters
and create a new parameter with name
EnablePlainTextPassword with Value 1

remember E P T P(starting letters) should be in caps, then need to restart the machine

now you should be able to do it

thanks
chakri

[jane zhang]

Hi,
I checked his pc and the registry is OK, this is also why I cam map my home dir in the user's windows explorer.
We are using NIS and samba is installed in a sun box.

Thanks,

[John Hietala_1]

Did you check if the user has an entry on the smbpasswd file?

[jane zhang]

we do not have this file, in the smb.conf, the line is commented.
# more /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf | grep smbpasswd
##; smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
# more /etc/smbpasswd
/etc/smbpasswd: No such file or directory
#

Jane