On Wednesday 05 February 2003 04:08 am, David Purton wrote: ; ; Hi, ; ; We Just bought a new server at work and its running linux + samba. ; ; Most seems to run fine, except I can't make the WinXP boxes remember ; their passwords for reconnecting to shares at login. ; ; What do I need to set in either smb.conf or on the XP boxes to get the ; to reconnenct automatically at login? ; ; A temporary work around is putting a batch file in the startup folder ; with a few net use statements in them, but this is hardly ; satisfactory. ; ; ; Although I didn't spend long trying, I got the same behaviour under ; Win2K professional. ; ; I'm assuming this is a problem with my smb.conf, since surely even MS ; wouldn't set things up like this on purpose? ; ; I'm using encrypted passwords, and they seem to work fine and user ; level security. ; ; From samba logs, the WinXP boxes send the correct username when they ; try to reconnect, but the logs report a bad username/password pair. ; ; I've googled lots, found many similar looking problems, but haven't ; had any luck in trying to get things working :( ; ; Any suggestions would be muchly appreciated. ; ; dc ;
You gave to have encrypt passwords = true and I think security = SHARE in you smb.conf to connect to winxp. Cynthia -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
