I am going to assume that version is from unstable (also known as potato) since my Samba is older. In that case, there was mention of a bug in that version of Samba that makes it need a 2.2.x kernel. The message at this address has a better explanation than I can give:
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9908/msg01209.html Hope this helps, Patrick On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, peter karlsson wrote: > Hi! > > A recent samba update (in potato) rendered all my shares non-functional. For > some reason, no-one can mount anything, not even using the correct > passwords, and if I try to browse my computer (from a Windows machine), it > claims that I have to enter a password for \\computername\IPC$ > > I've tried fiddling around with the configuration file, and also to move the > old shares to the end of the new template configuration file, but I cannot > get it to work. Does anyone have any idea what is wrong? > > Samba version is 2.0.5a-2