[Samba] Every time I install -- same problem

[Tom H]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Ted Hilts <ehilts at mcsnet.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 11:37 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
>> On Tuesday, September 28, 2010 11:14 AM, Ted Hilts wrote:
>> >   1. Every time I install SAMBA and its components I  get "Server
>> > requested plaintext password but 'client plaintext auth' is disabled". I
>> > can't bring up any kind of a samba session. Also, I get 2 other error
>> > messages noted below. One is about lp_bool and the other after I provide
>> > my password. I am running on Ubuntu LUCID.  In the smb file there seems
>> > to be a lot of PAM lines -- I don't know if that is significant to what
>> > appears to be a password type conflict between this problematic computer
>> > and the other computers which are also Ubuntu. I don't use encryption on
>> > the computers just text for passwords and so I guess the problem is just
>> > that but I cannot get samba to behave even when the Samba GUI says there
>> > is no encryption -- the error says just the opposite.
>>
>> Windows XP and above do not allow plain text passwords by default.
>> That's the reason for the first error I read your problem correctly.
>>
>> Try setting 'encrypt passwords = true' and see if the first error goes away.
>
> I am now getting only one error message and it seems that all 3 Ubuntu
> machines are having the same problem with each other -- somehow I missed
> that I suppose because I'm moving my network into a Linux only network.
>
> ANYWAY, the error I'm now getting from the 3 Ubuntu machines is :
>
> "connection to (machine name) failed (Error
> NT_STATUS_CONNECTION_REFUSED)"
>
> I used "machine nane" to refer to the 3 Ubuntu machines which are
> "star", "cic2ext", and "Ubuntu".

Please run the following on the smb server and post the following on
paste.ubuntu.com
testparm -v
smbclient -L //127.0.0.1
pdbedit -Lw
netstat -ntulp | grep mbd