Samba problems

[Nicholas Marsh]

Every resource I access with samba requires a password multiple times. 
For example if I copy a folder to my Ferdora box that has 13 files in 
it, I get prompted for my password 13 times. Very annoying.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

nick marsh

[Jay Fenlason]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 06:27:35AM -0500, Nicholas Marsh wrote:
>  Every resource I access with samba requires a password multiple
> times. 
>  For example if I copy a folder to my Ferdora box that has 13 files in 
>  it, I get prompted for my password 13 times. Very annoying.
>  
>  Any idea what I'm doing wrong? 
If you're using unencrypted passwords, that's a known problem with
Windows--it doesn't cache the password, so it needs to re-ask every
time it needs it.  The only workaround is to enable one-or-more of the
encrypted password types.

If you aren't using plaintext passwords, you'll need to provide more
information for me to have a chance of reproducing the problem.  Open
a bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com and attach a copy of your
/etc/samba/smb.conf file and a description of your network topology
(workgroup, domain, etc) and a description of your client machine (OS,
Service Pack, etc).

			-- JF

[Christopher A. Williams]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 09:14, Jay Fenlason wrote:
>  On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 06:27:35AM -0500, Nicholas Marsh wrote:
>  > Every resource I access with samba requires a password multiple times. 
>  > For example if I copy a folder to my Ferdora box that has 13 files in 
>  > it, I get prompted for my password 13 times. Very annoying.
>  > 
>  > Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
>  
>  If you're using unencrypted passwords, that's a known problem with
>  Windows--it doesn't cache the password, so it needs to re-ask every
>  time it needs it.  The only workaround is to enable one-or-more of the
>  encrypted password types. 
I've noticed the same behavior - could it be gnome-vfs is sending
unencrypted passwords? In my case, I'm trying to connect to a Windows XP
share running in a VMware session on the same machine. Is there a way to
make Nautilus (I'm assuming via gnome-vfs) send encrypted passwords if
it isn't?

Also, in my case, I am simply unable to connect from that Windows XP VM
to the samba shares I have set up on my Samba enabled system (the host
OS). I tried uninstalling samba, but can't due to dependency issues with
kde-base. I wanted to see if the final samba 3.0 from samba.org would
work. Yes I do know that the Red Hat RPM from samba.org is different - I
was going to uninstall samba, samba-common, samba-client and samba-swat
(which also doesn't work, BTW), but didn't bother trying because of the
dependency issues.

I will be glad to bugzilla this if it's not there already.

Cheers,

Chris

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[Michel Alexandre Salim]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 22:27, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
[snip]
>  OS). I tried uninstalling samba, but can't due to dependency
> issues with
>  kde-base. I wanted to see if the final samba 3.0 from samba.org would
>  work. Yes I do know that the Red Hat RPM from samba.org is different - I
>  was going to uninstall samba, samba-common, samba-client and samba-swat
>  (which also doesn't work, BTW), but didn't bother trying because of the
>  dependency issues.
>   
[snip]
Simply rpm -e --nodeps the samba packages. I'm sure kde would still work
in their absence; just remember not to try and browse Windows networks
before you install the replacement RPMs!

Regards,

Michel