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Date:      Fri, 5 Apr 2002 02:54:46 -0600 (CST)
From:      Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com>
To:        mike ndabarasa <freebsd@nur.ac.rw>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: smbd
Message-ID:  <20020405025008.B43078-100000@catalyst.sasknow.net>
In-Reply-To: <web-3049334@pumba.nur.ac.rw>

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mike ndabarasa wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG:

> [...]
> as for now smbd is running and i have been able to use a windows box
> to access \\my_smbd_server
>
> but i still have problems to access from other desktops to
> that server.i m getting the followinfg message :
>
> "Theaccount is not authorized to log in from this station"
>
> even though both the windows desktops are in the same
> logical network!

Most likely, you need to have a look at what kind of authentication
you are accepting/enforcing from your Windows clients. If you require
a valid user/password, read up on smbpasswd(8).

Why don't you also post the relevant parts of /usr/local/etc/smb.conf:

The interesting bits are likely to be:

Hosts Allow
Security
Encrypt passwords
Username map
And, one of the relevant [sharename] blocks

- Ryan

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