Samba Password Authentication is failing

[Thomas Kaiser]

On 01/31/2010 06:44 PM, Peter Salzman wrote:
> For reference:
> Satan    Linux       192.168.1.2
> Lucifer   WinXP   192.168.1.3
> 
> Partial success.   Now I'm more confused than ever because what's
> happening contradicts what I think I know about windows networking.
> 
> First of all, the two files
> 
>       C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\lmosts.sam
>       C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
> 
> contain:
> 
>      192.168.1.2 satan

I think lmosts.sam should be called only lmhosts (or lmosts.sam is not 
only a typo in the email, try lmhosts.sam). When I remember correctly, 
the .sam extension means "sample" and is not used on the real file.

> 
> and as such, from Lucifer, I can "ping satan" and "ping 192.168.1.2"
> successfully.   That's no surprise.
> 
> However, this is a surprise: From Windows explorer,
> 
>      \\192.168.1.2\tmp
> 
> works!  I get a listing of my Linux /tmp directory.   However, when I
> try to use this in the Windows explorer:
> 
>      \\satan\tmp
> 
> I get an error msg saying "\\satan\tmp is not accessible.  Logon
> failure: unknown user name or bad password".
> 
> How can one work and the other one not work?

Thomas