Topic: SME-SERVER and WinXP

[pepinc]

I've been using this SME-SERVER 6.0 for over a year now and it's been working fine. I've always used Win98 on my workstation to access the server-manager through the browser and I also had no trouble accessing my files.

I'm now trying to do the same with WinXP Pro and I can still access server-manager but I always get an error message when I try to access my files. The message tells me that I am "not authorized to connect from this workstation" even though I'm logged-in as Administrator on the workstation???

I've try many things but can't seem to get anywhere with this.

Did anyone have this problem with XP?

[arthurhanlon]

Hi there,

I currently use Windows XP Professional SP2 with no problems at all. The only thing that I get when connecting to any shares on the SME box is a login prompt so that I may use any username and password combo contained within the SME box to gain access to the i-bays.

I can't think why it may be telling you this, can it be a workgroup issue? Can you explain a little more on how you have this SME box setup and one of the guys here may be of more help than me.

Thanks,

Arthur

[the_mad_prof]

Yeah, you are admin of your local box but not the SME box.  Not sure how you are connecting, I use run \\sme\primary\file (or whatever) then log in as admin using the dialogue box Win Xp throws up.

You can of course do away with this is fyou log into the domain, just remember the registry hack in http://<your server>/server-resources/

J.

[MSmith]

If you want to remove the necessity for usernames/passwords when using SME Server ibays, you can make custom templates and put them in /etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/smb.conf

The relevant template fragments:

11guestOk (should be "yes")
11mapToGuest (should be "bad user")
10globals (add "null passwords = yes")
50printers (change to "guest ok = yes", add "public = yes")

Capitalization of template fragment names is important!

Then:
/sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/smb.conf
service smb restart

You can skip the 50printers fragment if you install the Advanced Workgroup contrib.

[arne]

I did not see this question, so I just made a new one at allmost the same subject.

I think there is a well known issue about many Samba implementations, where a domain logon from a 2000 client works like a dream, while a domain logon from a XP does not work at all.

Have done this "minor XP modification" many times, but don't remember "how" just now. I think a Google searc could explain.

It is possible to configure a Samba server so the XP clients can log stright in, but i believe this is not the case for the SME 6.0.1 (Last summer I sat up a Suse 8.1 server, and at that one, to my surprice, the XP clients logged on unmodified, by default configuration.)

My question:
http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=26929.0

Best reg Arne

[arne]

I think the explanation of the Windows XP mod for logging on a clasical Samba PDC is down at the bottom of this link:

http://www.ccs.uky.edu/docs/samba.htm

On the other hand .. I tried to find the same info at the Samba org web page, but I cant't find it. Dont know if this problem does not exist any longer for the newest Samba versions ???

http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ClientConfig.html#id2545769

Best reg Arne.