Hello all,
I have successfully installed samba 3.0.22 on my sol 9 e250 machine. I created my share but when i try to get to my share from my windows machine, it prompts me for my username and passwd, i enter it and it just comes back prompting me for my username and passwd agai,. Has anyone been thru this before. Please help. Attached is my smb.conf file

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Current Config


# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from 159.67.38.90
# Date: 2006/06/06 11:02:42

[global]
dos charset = ASCII
unix charset = UTF8
display charset = LOCALE
workgroup = Workgroup
netbios name = NEMESIS
netbios aliases =
netbios scope =
server string = Samba 3.0.22
interfaces =
bind interfaces only = No
security = USER
auth methods =
encrypt passwords = Yes
update encrypted = No
client schannel = Auto
server schannel = Auto
allow trusted domains = Yes
hosts equiv =
map to guest = Never
null passwords = No
obey pam restrictions = No
password server = *
smb passwd file = /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd
private dir = /usr/local/samba/private
passdb backend = smbpasswd
algorithmic rid base = 1000
root directory =
guest account = nobody
enable privileges = No
pam password change = No
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd
passwd chat = *new*password* %n\n *new*password* %n\n *changed*
passwd chat debug = No
passwd chat timeout = 2
check password script =
username map =
password level = 0
username level = 0
unix password sync = No
restrict anonymous = 0
lanman auth = Yes
ntlm auth = Yes
client NTLMv2 auth = No
client lanman auth = Yes
client plaintext auth = Yes
preload modules =
use kerberos keytab = No
log level = 0
syslog = 1
syslog only = No
log file =
max log size = 5000
debug timestamp = Yes
debug hires timestamp = No
debug pid = No
debug uid = No
smb ports = 445 139
large readwrite = Yes
max protocol = NT1
min protocol = CORE
read bmpx = No
read raw = Yes
write raw = Yes
disable netbios = No
reset on zero vc = No
acl compatibility =
defer sharing violations = Yes
nt pipe support = Yes
nt status support = Yes
announce version = 4.9
announce as = NT
max mux = 50
max xmit = 16644
name resolve order = lmhosts wins host bcast
max ttl = 259200
max wins ttl = 518400
min wins ttl = 21600
time server = No
unix extensions = Yes
use spnego = Yes
client signing = auto
server signing = No
client use spnego = Yes
enable asu support = Yes
svcctl list =
change notify timeout = 60
deadtime = 0
getwd cache = Yes
keepalive = 300
kernel change notify = Yes
lpq cache time = 30
max smbd processes = 0
paranoid server security = Yes
max disk size = 0
max open files = 10000
socket options = TCP_NODELAY
use mmap = Yes
hostname lookups = No
name cache timeout = 660
load printers = Yes
printcap cache time = 750
printcap name =
cups server =
iprint server =
disable spoolss = No
enumports command =
addprinter command =
deleteprinter command =
show add printer wizard = Yes
os2 driver map =
mangling method = hash2
mangle prefix = 1
max stat cache size = 0
stat cache = Yes
machine password timeout = 604800
add user script =
rename user script =
delete user script =
add group script =
delete group script =
add user to group script =
delete user from group script =
set primary group script =
add machine script =
shutdown script =
abort shutdown script =
username map script =
logon script =
logon path = \\%N\%U\profile
logon drive =
logon home = \\%N\%U
domain logons = No
os level = 20
lm announce = Auto
lm interval = 60
preferred master = Auto
local master = Yes
domain master = Auto
browse list = Yes
enhanced browsing = Yes
dns proxy = Yes
wins proxy = No
wins server =
wins support = No
wins hook =
wins partners =
kernel oplocks = Yes
lock spin count = 3
lock spin time = 10
oplock break wait time = 0
ldap admin dn =
ldap delete dn = No
ldap group suffix =
ldap idmap suffix =
ldap machine suffix =
ldap passwd sync = no
ldap replication sleep = 1000
ldap suffix =
ldap ssl = no
ldap timeout = 15
ldap page size = 1024
ldap user suffix =
add share command =
change share command =
delete share command =
eventlog list =
config file =
preload =
lock directory = /usr/local/samba/var/locks
pid directory = /usr/local/samba/var/locks
utmp directory =
wtmp directory =
utmp = No
default service =
message command =
get quota command =
set quota command =
remote announce =
remote browse sync =
socket address = 0.0.0.0
homedir map =
afs username map =
afs token lifetime = 604800
log nt token command =
time offset = 0
NIS homedir = No
panic action =
host msdfs = No
enable rid algorithm = Yes
passdb expand explicit = No
idmap backend =
idmap uid =
idmap gid =
template homedir = /home/%D/%U
template shell = /bin/false
winbind separator = \
winbind cache time = 300
winbind enum users = Yes
winbind enum groups = Yes
winbind use default domain = No
winbind trusted domains only = No
winbind nested groups = No
winbind max idle children = 3
winbind nss info = template
comment =
path =
username =
invalid users =
valid users = @dbss
admin users = @dbss
read list =
write list =
printer admin =
force user =
force group =
read only = Yes
acl check permissions = Yes
acl group control = No
acl map full control = Yes
create mask = 0744
force create mode = 00
security mask = 0777
force security mode = 00
directory mask = 0755
force directory mode = 00
directory security mask = 0777
force directory security mode = 00
force unknown acl user = No
inherit permissions = No
inherit acls = No
inherit owner = No
guest only = No
guest ok = No
only user = No
hosts allow =
hosts deny =
allocation roundup size = 1048576
aio read size = 0
aio write size = 0
aio write behind =
ea support = No
nt acl support = Yes
profile acls = No
map acl inherit = No
afs share = No
block size = 1024
max connections = 0
min print space = 0
strict allocate = No
strict sync = No
sync always = No
use sendfile = No
write cache size = 0
max reported print jobs = 0
max print jobs = 1000
printable = No
printing = sysv
cups options =
print command = lp -c -d%p %s; rm %s
lpq command = lpstat -o%p
lprm command = cancel %p-%j
lppause command = lp -i %p-%j -H hold
lpresume command = lp -i %p-%j -H resume
queuepause command = disable %p
queueresume command = enable %p
printer name =
use client driver = No
default devmode = No
force printername = No
default case = lower
case sensitive = Auto
preserve case = Yes
short preserve case = Yes
mangling char = ~
hide dot files = Yes
hide special files = No
hide unreadable = No
hide unwriteable files = No
delete veto files = No
veto files =
hide files =
veto oplock files =
map archive = Yes
map hidden = No
map system = No
map readonly = yes
mangled names = Yes
mangled map =
store dos attributes = No
browseable = Yes
blocking locks = Yes
csc policy = manual
fake oplocks = No
locking = Yes
oplocks = Yes
level2 oplocks = Yes
oplock contention limit = 2
posix locking = Yes
strict locking = Yes
share modes = Yes
dfree cache time = 0
dfree command =
copy =
include =
preexec =
preexec close = No
postexec =
root preexec =
root preexec close = No
root postexec =
available = Yes
volume =
fstype = NTFS
set directory = No
wide links = Yes
follow symlinks = Yes
dont descend =
magic script =
magic output =
delete readonly = No
dos filemode = No
dos filetimes = Yes
dos filetime resolution = No
fake directory create times = No
vfs objects =
msdfs root = No
msdfs proxy =

[login]
comment = Storage
path = /usr/login
read only = No
guest ok = Yes

How you created and enabled the samba users on the server?

Thanks, for your prompt reply and hope you can help me. I rcp'd the smbpasswd file from the old unix machine that I built several years back to the new one. I have done it like that befare and it worked. Yes, there are users already created on the machine. all the users also have the same unix username and uid on the unix box as required by samba

Just out of curiosity, since you are using swat and it's easy to do.

Turn off encrypted password and see if it works.

The reason I am suggesting this is because you say the files came from an old machine, where it may not have been active.

If that works then it is bacuse the windows machines are sending plain text passwords. If this does not work, then try creating a new test user and set the password and enable it an see if you can connect using that user. If that works then it means that either your users have become disabled somewhere in the process or that the old files are not compatible with the new version of samba (unlikely).

Thanks agin.I turned off encrypt passwd , committed the changes, now I get an errot box " . \\ipaddrss\shareThe account is not authorized to log in from this station". Pls help......

i created a new user and enabled the user but problem still persists.

ok this one definitely means that encryption should be on.