I set my linuxbox up as a samba server, changed the workgroup name in smb.conf to the name of the windows network domain that I will be connecting from, and now the samba server shows up in in the windows network neighborhood like I wanted. When I try to map a network drive to a share on the samba server from windows, a dialog ask me for a username and password. I enter a username and password that exists on the linux box and click OK..after a couple of seconds the username/password dialog pops back up, but now with the name of the windows domain in front of the username that I entered. It does the same thing when I try using any of the user accounts on the linuxbox.

WINDOWSDOMAINNAME\username
password

What should I do to get this connected ? I'm using mandrake 9.

Did you smbpasswd?

smbpasswd -a username

In other words, you need to add the user to the smbpasswd file as well as the passwd file.

I've got the passwords setup. Now I can still see the samba server in the nethood and ping it by hostname, but I get a 'share doesn't exist' from windows clients when I try to map to the samba server. When I do a "smbcleint -L RALPH1 -N" I get a "session request to RALPH1 failed ( NOT LISTENING FOR CALLING NAME ), but when I do the same command using LOCALHOST, I get all of my share information for the server. RALPH1 is the netbios name in smb.conf .

After doing smbpasswd -a username I'm still not getting connected to the share from a windows client. It acts like it's looking in the Windows Domain database for the username not on the samba server. When it asks me for a username and password I put the username only in the top line. I click OK and after a few seconds the same username / password dialog pops back up with the username and password still in it, but now the Windows Domain name is in front of the user name. This is my first samba server installation so I'm a little slow....Shouldn't it be looking on the samba server for authentication instead of the Windows Domain ?.....

Please post your smb.conf file.

You speak of mapping a drive. What happens when you click on the samba server in network neighbourhood?

Do you put in the user name and password specified in the smbpasswd file?

We all start out the same.

if your windows clients are win2k and up you need to enable encrypted passwords on samba otherwise it won't login.
It sounds like you are running XP on the clients from your description?
If your clients are part of a domain that the samba server isn't then you might have to type in 'sambaserver\username' then the password otherwise it will check the domian controller

there is also another possibility I was having a similar problem until someone told me to add and or change

create mode and directory mode

create mode = 0664

directory mode = 0775

after this modification it worked just fine no spitting password back

Alex