I have a puzzling problem and was hoping that maybe someone here has seen something similar and has a regedit cure for a stubborn winxp box.

Samba is configured to authenticate users via a win server 2003 box and all but one machine can see the shares and do whatever their permissions allow them to do. However, on this one machine, running winxp, I just can't figure out (without resorting to registry comparisons) why it will not browse the linux shares. The wording of the error messages is as follows:

I've Googled for an answer, but none of the suggested solutions worked for me!

tia.

Puzzling solution to this problem as I experienced was to restart the smb process several times - yeah, I actually had to restart it 3 times before this one machine could connect to the samba shares for user home directories.

Thanks to those who may have wanted to reply but did not .

Actually, I have finally figured out what it was. Restarting Samba was not really it. Linux had nothing to do with this. Apparently, Windows XP uses 5 different levels of authentication and on this one PC, it had to be at 0 for it to work. This is controlled by a GPO and since this was a newly built PC, the GPO seemed to have delayed implementing itself on this one PC.

Just incase someone else is having difficulty, this is the link to the site that has the gory details (Administratord - please remove if in violation):
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=147706

Cheers,
kb.