Hi,
I have my company XP notebook, that is nornally used
to connect to company Win2000 based network
I cannot change the config of this notebook due to company
existing rules.

At home I created my linux network and I have troubles
with samba that comes with Red Hat 9 (version 2.2.7a).

I can access shares only using this command:
net use <drive:> \\<servername>\<sharename> /user:<username> <password>

If I try to browse, I get "Access Denied" Error.

I tried to setup the samba linux box in "Share" as well "User mode" .... nothing changes!

The problem is that while I can use the "Net use" workaround for the disk share ... for the printer I cannot access it and I do not know any workaround!

I think the problem is in the XP client that tries to access the Win2000 server for authentication, but at home this is not reachable!

Pls can somebody help me?

Thanks Franzillo

franz:

make sure in your smb.conf file that you have "browsable=yes" and "writable=yes" enabled. otherwise, you might get the error you are referring to now

daemon

Yes I have.

I think the problem is the client, not the server.
My XP notebook reports the following errors in the
system errors

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The Security System could not establish a secured connection with the server cifs/companyserver.mycompany.it. No authentication protocol was available.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

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The Security System detected an attempted downgrade attack for server cifs/companyserver.mycompany.it. The failure code from authentication protocol Kerberos was "There are currently no logon servers available to service the logon request.
(0xc000005e)".

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

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The Security System could not establish a secured connection with the server DNS/companyserver.mycompany.it. No authentication protocol was available.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
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I also tried to access the linux box in a configuration in
which I can also access my company Win2000 server:
everything runs!

it sounds like there is something with password encryption that isn't set on one side or another. you might want to try to see if turning off encrypted passwords has any (positive) impact on ur system. it also looks like there is no PDC (logon) or DNS servers running on ur linux box, or if they are, the lappage isn't recognizing them. you will either have to edit the laptop netowk settings so that you don't look for certain DNS/PDC logons (which, from what i assume is against company policy), or try to mimic your coporate infrastructure to the T (i.e. IP addys, DHCP & DNS servers, PDC logons, and maybe an active directory {windows term, not sure what the linux equiv. is}). In the long run, it would be easier to have ur laptop conform to ur server (just by running alternate settings on the TCP/IP properties of the network card in XP), rather than having the one linux box conform to a multiple server achitecture that ur company probably has.

daemon