Re: Samba: the account is not authorized to log in

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