Correct way to mount Win2k3 shares with Samba?

Preston Crawford me at prestoncrawford.com
Tue May 4 07:19:45 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 23:39, Edward wrote:
> > Most of the networks I've setup that had Samba file servers were small
> > and didn't have domain controllers. So there would be a preston:password
> > entry on the server and on my desktop and every time I'd request a
> > resource from the server by virtue of the fact that I'd logged in with
> > preston:password to my desktop, the server would receive those same
> > credentials, see I was good and give me permission to read/write, etc. I
> > think what's happening here is that I'm not authenticating against the
> > domain. My machine is in the domain now. I can mount the shares. But
> > once the shares are mounted and I try to write, for example, I'm not
> > passing along to the domain controller that I'm preston and here's my
> > password.
> > 
> > Hopefully that makes sense.
> > 
> > Preston
> 
> What version of Samba are you running? Bugzilla is showing a heap of 
> W2K3 bugs with some versions of samba.
> 
>  From just searching and reading, I'm getting the feeling you're not 
> actually doing anything wrong, but that it is a Samba issue, not yours.
> 
> Regards,
> Ed.

That would make me feel better. Because I feel like I have a good grasp
on Samba, so thus the reason this is so puzzling. I believe I'm using
3.0.2-7.

Preston





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