Funky samba bug

[Ben Scott]

On 10/25/05, Dan Coutu <coutu at snowy-owl.com> wrote:
> Here's the setup. I have a Red Hat 9 server running Samba 3. It has been
> working just fine.  A client had their hard drive die in their windows laptop.
> So, get a new  hard drive, reinstall windows, try to connect to Samba.
>
> For some reason their own login is not working from this newly rebuilt
> system.

  Is the new laptop a Win XP Service Pack mumble machine, while all
the others are less than mumble?  If so, that might be it.  I believe
SP mumble of XP increased the level of SMB security required. 
Something like packet signing or some such.

  Are you running Samba as a Domain Controller, and the new computer
named the same as the old one?  If so, did you remove the old computer
account from Samba before joining the new computer?

  Is there a firewall turned on on the XP computer?

> One thing that seems to be different is the Windows user name is now all
> in capitals when it used to be all lower case.

  Samba folds case on usernames by default, so I doubt that's it.

  Check the Windows "Event Viewer" to see if Windows has anything
useful to say.  (Stranger things have happened.)  Check the Samba
logs.  If they don't help, crank up the log/debug level until they do.

-- Ben "SMB stands for Stupid Mangled Barf" Scott