samba problems

[Paul]

For some reason, when I turned on the linux box this morning, the XP box could 
access the samba share.  I made no changes between yesterday and today other 
than rebooting the linux box, and didn't incorporate the changes you 
suggested, below.  Yesterday I even tried to sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart 
(even waited for 15 minutes or so to allow XP to re-poll the network).

So the new questions are; short of having to reboot, what prevented the XP box 
from accessing samba yesterday and can that be overcome w/o reboot?
Paul

On Wednesday 06 August 2008 7:14:18 Karl Auer wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 06:38 -0400, Paul wrote:
> > Yes.  re-did sudo smbpasswd -a <user> with same username on windows,
> > linux and samba...No luck.
> >
> > Stumped.
>
> OK - turn OFF encrypted passwords on the Samba side. Maybe the XP box is
> not using encrypted passwords for some reason. This means the password
> to use will be the user's Unix password.
>
> Also, turn up the logging level to three or so, and watch what happens
> when you try to connect. Do you see a connect happening at all? If so,
> what does Samba say happens to the connection?
>
> Oh - and what happens when you try from another machine (not the local
> one)?
>
> Regards, K.