Question : Problem with Samba and WinNT

I am running Samba 1.9.16 on an AIX machine and trying to connect from an NT 4.0 workstation. The public directories defined in smb.conf work fine, but when I try to map network drives to private shares with write access, I get the following NT message, "This account is not authorized to login from this station"

Here is the related smb.conf entry:

[modemman]
comment = Modem Log Files
path = /digmo/services
valid users = someuser someuser2 someuser3
public = no
writable = yes
printable = yes

I have tried listing only one valid user, and I have tried several accounts, but none will work. All accounts I have tried have remote login and remote ftp privledges. I have also tried creating identical accounts on the NT machine and the Unix machine, but to no avail.

I am perplexed.

Thanks for any help,
Chuck

p.s. Sorry I only have 45 pts to offer.

Answer : Problem with Samba and WinNT

After applying SP3 to NT 4.0 you need to add a registry-key

"EnablePlainTextPassword" reg_dword with value 1 (hex).

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Rdr\Parameters

You will have to reboot the NT-server to activate this change!