... that's what's really weird. The log file is for a smbpasswd session on the Samba box (ie. typing 'smbpasswd' at the terminal).
If I map a network drive in WinNT, and give the same username and password, it connects to the Samba box just fine!?!?!? I'm using "mcrobert" as the username on both the NT and Samba box ... tks ANdrew ps. I'm on the samba mailing list, but no-one seems to have an answer to this there ... -----Original Message----- From: James Sasitorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 10:30 PM To: Andrew McRobert; Debian-Users (E-mail) Subject: RE: help! ... doin' the samba So in the excerpt: --------------------------- [2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] smbd/connection.c:utmp_claim(560) utmp_claim: conn NULL [2000/06/19 12:37:01, 1] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(988) Username is invalid on this system [2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(408) Closing connections ----------------------------- It seems that the username from the win machine is null. the message says "Username [insert here] is invalid on this system." what name are you logining in your windows box with? you can change that name and/or map user names for your samba account. under global "username map = /etc/samba/users.map" and in users.map [unix name] = "my name" james -----Original Message----- From: Andrew McRobert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 11:43 PM To: Debian-Users (E-mail) Subject: help! ... doin' the samba hi, I've had this problem for a while and can't seem to get around it ... When a normal user tries to change his/her passwd using smbpasswd or SWAT, they get the following error: "machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the session setup. Error was : ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.). Failed to change password for mcrobert" ... but the users are contained in the smbpasswd file & the /etc/passwd file. What's happenin' here???!!? I'm using a bare bones smb.conf file: shown below: # Samba config file created using SWAT # from [my machine] # Date: 2000/06/19 12:43:05 # Global parameters [global] workgroup = interfaces = [machine's IP]/22 127.0.0.1 encrypt passwords = Yes debug level = 2 guest account = [homes] browseable = No [mcrobert] path = /home/mcrobert writeable = Yes [jlange] path = /home/temp ... the relevant lines from the /var/log/smb file (at log-level 2) are: [2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] param/loadparm.c:do_section(2481) Processing section "[homes]" [2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] param/loadparm.c:do_section(2481) Processing section "[mcrobert]" [2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] param/loadparm.c:do_section(2481) Processing section "[jlange]" [2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] lib/interface.c:add_interface(83) added interface ip=134.115.227.50 bcast=134.115.227.255 nmask=255.255.252.0 [2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] smbd/server.c:main(746) Changed root to / [2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_special(97) netbios connect: name1=127.0.0.1 name2= [2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] smbd/connection.c:utmp_claim(560) utmp_claim: conn NULL [2000/06/19 12:37:01, 1] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(988) Username is invalid on this system [2000/06/19 12:37:01, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(408) Closing connections thanks a lot for any help!! Andrew ------------------------------------------------- Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Perth, Western Australia Ph: [+61 8 9360 6479] Fax: [+61 8 9310 6671] e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math" -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null