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Old 08-22-2017
As Robin says, we need more information.

As far as the Samba password setup it typically goes like this:

1. Usually, the MS admin creates a share (hidden or visible) with the Unix users username and password. Then the Unix/Linux user simply logs in and his password is transmitted to the MSbox to access the share.
2. The Unix admin installs an SMB client and declares (adds) the specific Unix user as an SMB user.
3. At this point you would expect a connection to the MS share to work BUT IT Doesn't. The reason is that the SMB password to be transmitted to the MSbox has to be hashed in (typically) '/var/smb/smbpasswd' but when you look in there, that users hashed record is not there. However, now the Unix box is aware that the user is an SMB client user, if the sysadmin (or the user themselves) resets that user's password with the 'passwd' command (even if it's set to what is was already), the hash will be put in '/var/smb/smbpasswd' file. It miraculously appears. Until that hash is in the smbpasswd file there isn't a hope in hell of it working.

So on your Linux box find your 'smbpasswd' file and look in there to see that a hash for that user exists. If it doesn't you need to set/reset that users password, and if it does, confirm whether that users password is what the Samba server is expecting.
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masktest

MASKTEST(1)							    Test Suite							       MASKTEST(1)

NAME

       masktest - Find differences in wildcard matching between Samba's implementation and that of a remote server.

SYNOPSIS

       masktest {//server/share} [-U user%pass] [-d debuglevel] [-W workgroup] [-n numloops] [-s seed] [-a] [-E] [-M max protocol] [-f filechars]
		[-m maskchars] [-v]

DESCRIPTION

       masktest is a utility for detecting differences in behaviour between Samba's own implementation and that of a remote server. It will run
       generate random filenames/masks and check if these match the same files they do on the remote file as they do on the local server. It will
       display any differences it finds.

       This utility is used by the Samba team to find differences in behaviour between Samba and Windows servers.

OPTIONS

       -U user%pass
	   Specify the user and password to use when logging on on the shares. This parameter can be specified twice (once for the first server,
	   once for the second).

       -s seed
	   Seed the random number generator with the specified value.

       -n numops
	   Set the number of operations to perform.

       -a
	   Print the operations that are performed.

       -M max_protocol
	   Maximum protocol to use.

       -f
	   Specify characters that can be used when generating file names. Default: abcdefghijklm.

       -E
	   Abort when difference in behaviour is found.

       -m maskchars
	   Specify characters used for wildcards.

       -v
	   Be verbose

VERSION

       This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite.

SEE ALSO

       Samba

AUTHOR

       This utility is part of the Samba[1] suite, which is developed by the global Samba Team[2].

       masktest was written by Andrew Tridgell.

       This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij.

NOTES

	1. Samba
	   http://www.samba.org/

	2. Samba Team
	   http://www.samba.org/samba/team/

Samba 4.0							    06/17/2014							       MASKTEST(1)