Kevin Thorpe wrote:
I'm trying to set up a new Samba user. I've done useradd to put them in passwd, I've done smbpasswd to set a samba password. They're in the required group (spendtrak) for this share. I've even restarted samba. When I try and connect to the share with 'connect using a different username' form XP it just keeps asking me for the password. I can connect to the share as myself, but not if I define myself as the 'different user name'. Is there a log anywhere which will tell me what's going wrong with the login.
Sorry, but this is frustrating the hell out of me.
# share for spendtrak[spendtrak] comment = Spendtrak Files path = /home/spendtrak writable = yes printable = no valid users = +spendtrak force group = spendtrak create mode = 0660 create mask = 0660 force create mode = 0660 directory mode = 0770 directory mask = 0770 force directory mode = 0770 inherit permissions = yes
Well smbclient seems to work fine so I guess it's Windows at fault (as per bloody usual).
Well I finally worked it out. Reboot Windows then it works. Bah! Stupid Microsoft. Wasted half my morning because Windows is broken.
I don't think you can connect to the same machine as 2 different users - and windows will cache connections even if they aren't mapped to a drive letter. If it happens again, try 'NET USE' from a cmd window to see if you have lingering connections and delete them.