samba new user cannot logon from W95

[dgermann]

Hi--

Samba has been running on the present server with four people regularly accessing it from Win95 machines and a WinXP Pro machine for 2 years or more.

Today I set up a new user (first time in almost the whole 2 years) and the user cannot login from a Win95 machine. (He gets an invalid password message from Windows).

Symptoms:

Other users can login from this machine.
This user cannot login from another W95 machine where other users can login.
This user can login to the server from the console.

From the server monitor I set him up by doing
adduser mike
smbadduser mike:mike
passwd mike

There is an entry in /etc/samba/smbpasswd for mike. There is a /home/mike directory on the server.

Any ideas what to do?

Thanks!

[leonpmu]

Are you sure that you did an smb password, because it looks like you only did a local password from that....

[dgermann]

leonpmu--

Thanks for the reply!

Yup, I did--the "smbadduser mike:mike" generates a request for a new password.

Turns out what the problem was that in the smb.conf file there was a list of specific directories and specific users who could access which ones. Once I added him into that, everything was fine!

Thanks, leonpmu!

[leonpmu]

Pleasure man, glad it is sorted out!