I installed SAMBA on my Debian Sarge box and got it working easily. The idea is a simple file server for my son's laptop running XP Pro.

We are able to connect and get read/write access to my home directory.

My problem is that to test it on my son's laptop, I entered my own Samba user name (as registered in Linux via smbpasswd) instead of my son's. Unfortunately we clicked "save password" in the Windows sign-in dialog for the SAMBA connection.

Now I want for my son to access his own home directory files, not mine. No matter what I do Windows automatically logs in as me (lloyd) not as my son (miles).

I have tried everything I can think of, including changing my own SAMBA user password. When I do that, I get the XP machine sign in dialog, but it won't take his username and password. I have also tried restarting Windows.

This seems like the problem is on the Windows SAMBA client, not in the server, but here is my simple smb.conf file anyway:

Hope someone can help! Until then I removed the [homes] entry and I set up a share (not shown here) for my son to access a directory /home/milesspecial that I chowned to my user/group. But this does not allow anyone to connect to their home directory via SAMBA.

I found the solution myself. For everyone else:

On the Windows XP client, go to :

Enable this setting. Reboot. Now you will be able to change the samba shares user. Then disable it again if you want automatic signin. (This is another Windows bug: you should be able to change the shares user even though auto-signin is active.)