On 6/23/07, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I cannot connect from a Windows2000 virtual machine (VMware Server) to > a samba directory, as I get (in Windows2000) the following message: > > "The account is not authorized to log in from this station". The > output of 'testparm' is below. > > Any ideas? Dumb question - did you add the user you want to log in as using "smbpasswd -a"? Samba has to maintain its own password database when using encrypted passwords because Windows Networking uses a different encryption algorithm. (You can configure Samba to use a domain controller instead for passwords...)
Thanks, Mikkel. Yes, I did use "smbpasswd -a". Any further ideas? Paulo
