Hello

I have an older PII 300 Mhz running Slackware 9.1 with Samba 3.04. So far Samba has been great since most of my family works with Windows and they needed a place to backup their files. There are 3 computers apart from the Samba server; mine which uses Slackware 10.1/Windows 2000 (for reference, computer A) a Windows XP Pro (B) and another Windows 2000 (C).

The samba server uses the line

passdb backend = tdbsam

so I need to create normal Linux users and then add them to smbpasswd to get samba users. I have created the users without any problems, and have 3 accounts, we'll name them user1, user2 and user3. On computer A and B all users can connect perfectly to the Samba server, sharing files, mapping drives etc. However when I try to connect to the server with any user on computer C I get a Windows dialog box saying "Access denied to //samba/????" when I try to open any of the shared folders for that user.

I have checked everything I know. The log files on the samba server don't show up anything strange that I can recall. There are no issues with firewalls or permissions to the shared folders. What really stumps me is that the other 2 computers can access the samba server without ANY problems and with ANY user. I think the problem lies on computer C and it's Windows 2000, but I cannot really put my finger on it.

If anyone could shed some light on me, or give any suggestions I would really appreciate it.

Hi there

I had similar problem and it turned out to be Zone Alarm. I'm sure you've thought of that, indeed you've worked out its not your server, so it must be some kind of W2k security issue. Look at your network connections to see what (software) protection is turned on. Is there a W2k firewall on, or a LAN IP connection being protected? turn off all your Machine 3 protection (temporarily) and see if it works!

Sorry its a bit uninspired!

Best of luck

Nick