[KLUG Members] Samba

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>I truly despise not having my mail available from anywhere. |:-[
>smbclient 2.999+3.0.alpha21-5 is now messed up.
>Samba is working fine. The last Samba upgrade required some changes in
>smb.conf so the server would still be a PDC:
>use spnego = no
>but the logs and XP clients show it working. smbclient, however, is toast. 

smbclient is broken in the alpha builds, there has been a fair amount of chatter
about this.  Did your smbclient work and then suddenly stop, or what version
change did you perform that busted it>

>cares$ smbclient //officemanager/Quicken $PASSWORD -d 4 -U backup -W first
>added interface ip=192.168.1.2 bcast=192.168.1.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
>Client started (version 2.999+3.0.alpha21-5 for Debian).
>resolve_wins: Attempting wins lookup for name officemanager<0x20>
>wins_srv_is_dead: 127.0.0.1 is alive
>resolve_wins: using WINS server 127.0.0.1 and tag '*'
>nmb packet from 127.0.0.1(137) header: id=7636 opcode=Query(0) response=Yes
>     header: flags: bcast=No rec_avail=Yes rec_des=Yes trunc=No auth=Yes
>     header: rcode=0 qdcount=0 ancount=1 nscount=0 arcount=0
>     answers: nmb_name=OFFICEMANAGER<20> rr_type=32 rr_class=1 ttl=299567
>     answers   0 char `....+   hex 6000C0A8012B
>Got a positive name query response from 127.0.0.1 ( 192.168.1.43 )
>Connecting to 192.168.1.43 at port 445
>session request ok
>Serverzone is 18000
>session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
>cares$
>This killed the XP PC backups, which were also running on a previous
>2.999 build. The XP's have RO shares for user first\backup. They
>authenticated against the server. Any ideas on how I look up SMB/CIFS
>auth failures on XP? 

On the XP boxes do you have simple file sharing disabled?

Can you connect as a local account, such as the local administrator?
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