David, I was getting this error on my RedHat machine at home and it turned out to be ipchains. I didn't have rules in place to allow the inbound traffic on the netbios ports (137-139). Are you using ipchains or iptables?
Barry deFreese NTS Technology Services Manager Nike Team Sports (949)-616-4005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Technology doesn't make you less stupid; it just makes you stupid faster." Jerry Gregoire - Former CIO at Dell -----Original Message----- From: David Sanders [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2002 1:30 PM To: Debian Users Subject: smb.conf on Debian I set up a SMB share on a Debian 3.0 machine with this config: /etc/samba/smb.conf [global] workgroup = SANDERS [test] comment = For testing only path = /data/test browseable = yes read only = no guest ok = yes When I try to access the share from Windows XP, I get this error: "The account is not authorized to log in from this station." What do I need to do? It doesn't ask for a password or anything. David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]