Right now my NT server is just working in a workgroup as my current 
system is mainly NOVELL and SCO Unix. But do you mean if I have a 
domain 'security = domain, password server = *' is all I need to do 
from linux side? are all passwords stored in NT server?


<color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>On 19 Dec 00, at 18:41, Kenn Humborg wrote:


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<color><param>7F00,0000,0000</param><FontFamily><param>Times New Roman</param>> > It works with a windows95 client. but when I click the icon of

> the linux

> > box in network neighborhood from a NT server, it pops up a windows

> > that says wrong password or unknown username.  I tried put in the

> > username and password as specified in the smb.conf file it tells me the

> > username is not allowed on the linux machine. but the username does

> > work for all windows95 clients. Could anyone tell me what's wrong

> > with this NT client?

> Dan

>

> Read encryption.txt in doc folder of your distribution.

> Also on NT clients must have allow all uppercase enabled under folder

> options.

> You may also need to have usernames and passwords identical on both

> linux and NT but it may not be nessecary for browsing, as I used samba

> to implement Clearcase in a mixed mode env and that was a requirement.


</color>Do you have an NT domain?  If so, add samba to the domain

and use 'security = domain, password server = *' and you're

done.


You'll need to create accounts on the samba box with the same

_names_ as the NT accounts.  There are scripts to do this.

(Maybe there's a samba option that allows for a file to

specify the mapping from NT<<->Linux accounts.  Check the

docs.)


Anyway, once samba is part of the domain, all the password

issues just disappear.  Completely.  And connecting to a

samba share gets quicker.  Much quicker.


Later,

Kenn


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