windows can not access samba share - username case senitivity issue [xenial]

[Doug Smythies]

On 2016.02.06 Tom H wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 1:17 AM, Doug Smythies <dsmythies at telus.net> wrote:
>> I have been attempting to make samba work on an Ubuntu amd64 server 16.04 I am building.
>> My windows user account name is "Doug". My Ubuntu user account name is "doug". This appears to be the root issue.
>>
>> On my 14.04 server:
>>   check_ntlm_password:  authentication for user [Doug] -> [Doug] -> [doug] succeeded
>>
>> On my 16.04 server:
>>   check_ntlm_password: sam authentication for user [Doug] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER
>>   check_ntlm_password:  Authentication for user [Doug] -> [Doug] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER

> Can you logon as "doug" from a Linux box?

I can login as "doug" locally and from other boxes via ssh or whatever.
If you mean via samba from a different Linux box, then I have never done that.

> Did you create machine accounts?

Just me, so far. The account "doug" was created during installation.
And that is the same as my 14.04 test server.
I have never used the samba username name stuff, and not needing
to is the whole point of the way I configure samba.

... Doug