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Re: Unable to login to Samba PDC with Win98 but WinXP is fine

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From: Hector
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 20:46
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Thanks for your response.  I figured this out a couple of days ago.  You
were on the right track.  I had incorrect permissions on netlogon.  The
scary thing is, I know I didn't change the permissions.  I'll have to do
some research.

Thanks,
Hector

"Bill Marcum" <bmarcum@iglou.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 08:17:43 -0700,
>   Hector <joeblow@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Windows 95/98 users have recently been unable to login to our Samba PDC
> > (RedHat 7.2, Samba 2.2.3a) although they've been able to login fine for
over
> > a year now.  However, NT/2000/XP clients have no problems.
> >
> > When attempting to login from the Win 98 box as a regular user, we
receive
> > the following error:
> >
> > "The share name was not found.  Be sure you typed it correctly"
> >
> > However, if I login as a user with root privelages, it logs in without
any
> > problems.  For testing purposes, I gave the above user root privelages
and
> > was able to successfully login after doing so.  If I login from an
> > NT/2000/XP box with the same user (without root privelages), it logs in
fine
> > and runs the login script.
> >
> > The Samba log file for the Win 98 box shows this:
> >
> > --------- snip ---------
> > [2002/09/27 14:06:15, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(972)
> >   Defaulting to Lanman password for group1
> > [2002/09/27 14:06:15, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection(587)
> >   gear (192.168.19.98) Can't change directory to /etc/samba/netlogon
> > (Permission denied)
> > [2002/09/27 14:06:15, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(458)
> >   Closing connections
> >
> > -------- snip --------
> >
> > Any idea why I can't login with a 98 box?  Thank you very much in
advance!
> >
> > Hector
> >
> What are the permissions of /etc/samba and /etc/samba/netlogon?
>
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