Hola Señores

I'm new with samba and recently I set up a home file server with Samba 2.2.3a running on Mandrake 8.1 and my clients run windows 2000.
I can browse the Samba's shares from any of my clients typing the username and the password but when I try to join the clients to the domain I get the message: your username or password is invalid. I saw the samba logs and found that samba can't open the password database passdb.

How can I solve this problem?
I thought it was a permissions problem but I don't think so now since I can browse the server from the network neighborhood.
My samba server is the PDC and I created the trust accounts for each client.

Due to I'm a Linux newbie I don't have any idea on what could be wrong, please help me.



Saludos!

BACKUP YOUR ORIGINAL CONFIGURATION BEFORE DOING THIS
first we make a directory for the shared data.
"mkdir -p /home/shared"
then we set it to world readable so the samba server does not have any
problems
"chmod 775 -R /home/shared"
now place the configuration file in
"/etc/samba/smb.conf"
test if the samba server picks it up
"testparm"
then restart the samaba server
"/etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart"
now youre all set to go, the share does not provide security and can be
mounted from any machine so dont go to the internet if the samba share
is enabled on the machine.

now this samba server is ready to go.
goto a client computer and issue this command
"smbclient -L //IP-OF-SAMBA-SERVER"

it would display a list of shares on the server.
dont be confused by all the shares, just look for a share named
"shared"
of type "DISK", if you can see that then the configuration is all set
to
be used.

now we create an empty directory on the client machine
"mkdir -p /mnt/shared"
and now we can mount the share
"mount -t smbfs //IP-OF-SAMBA-SERVER/shared /mnt/shared"

now you can browse the contents of the directory.

you can also configure samba through a GUI, like "GnoSamba" or "SWAT"
and you can use a program like "LinNeighborhood" to browse the shares.
just search for the above programs on "freshmeat.net"

do changes in /etc/samba/smb.conf file
simple configuration file
[global]
security=share
encrypt passwords = yes

[shared]
path=/home/shared
writeable = yes
guest ok = yes

Apply these things i hope it will work

hopefully this samba server is not directly connected to the internet if you use that configuration.