smbclient and Authentication

[Martin McCormick]

	I had a smbclient application on a FreeBSD system that
worked fine with the Windows system it was supposed to
communicate with. We changed to ubuntu-server in order to get
better RS-232 performance and certainly got it.

	My question is whether the .smbauth file containing the
user name and Windows password works the same way under Linux
that it does under FreeBSD. Under FreeBSD, one uses .smbauth to
send that information when doing a script. One's Unix password
as in passwd, has no bearing on this Windows password which is
in .smbauth. Is there any difference in the way this works under
ubuntu?

	I'll be surprised if there is any difference, but I am
running out of things to try and my gut tells me both these
versions of smbclient should work the same way.

	Thanks for any help on what I know is a difficult
question and close to off-topic.

Martin McCormick WB5AGZ  Stillwater, OK 
Systems Engineer
OSU Information Technology Department Telecommunications Services Group