windows xp failed to connect to samba share

[Ehab]

Hello,
I have samaba installed on AIX machine with a share on it,
when I'm trying to connect to it through windows 2000, it
works normally, but when trying through windows xp, it
displays the login dialog again after adding the computer
name before the username (eg:- comp/user), then nothing
happened, any ideas???

 

[allan grossman [mvp]]

Hi, Ehab -

There's nothing on a Windows XP machine that *can* be
configured to connect to a samba share - all the
configuration happens on the samba server.

If the machine is XP Professional, turn off simple file
sharing - you'll find it in Control Panel --> Tools -->
Folder Options.

A machine running simple file sharing cannot log on to a
Windows (or samba) domain and all access to the Windows
machine is performed through the guest account. If
you're running XP Home, make the following changes to
smb.conf on the AIX box -

[global]
map to guest = bad user
guest ok = yes
hosts allow = 127.0.0.1,x.x.x.x
security = user
encrypty passwords = yes

Replace the x.x.x.x with the IP address of the XP Home
machine.

Hope this helps -

 

[Guest]

Hello Allan,
thank you for your reply, I tried what you told me but the result is the
same, I have windows XP professional, and as i told in my first message, this
share working without any problems from windows 2000, the problem only when
I'm trying to connect to it from windows XP, after searching on the internet
about configuring XP to work with samba, I found article tells me to do the
following

run gpedit.msc, then Enable the entry (Do not check for user ownership of
Roaming Profile Folders) from Computer configuration\Administrative
Templates\System\User Profiles
I tried it and it works, and I can connect to the share, but I have a
strange problem now, When I reboot the XP machine, I return to the original
problem, and to make it work again, I have to open gpedit.msc again and
disable and reenable the above entry again to make the XP machine connects to
the share, would you please help?

I have SP1 installed and the machine up to date with all fixes

Hi, Ehab -

There's nothing on a Windows XP machine that *can* be
configured to connect to a samba share - all the
configuration happens on the samba server.

If the machine is XP Professional, turn off simple file
sharing - you'll find it in Control Panel --> Tools -->
Folder Options.

A machine running simple file sharing cannot log on to a
Windows (or samba) domain and all access to the Windows
machine is performed through the guest account. If
you're running XP Home, make the following changes to
smb.conf on the AIX box -

[global]
map to guest = bad user
guest ok = yes
hosts allow = 127.0.0.1,x.x.x.x
security = user
encrypty passwords = yes

Replace the x.x.x.x with the IP address of the XP Home
machine.

Hope this helps -

-----Original Message-----
Hello,
I have samaba installed on AIX machine with a share on it,
when I'm trying to connect to it through windows 2000, it
works normally, but when trying through windows xp, it
displays the login dialog again after adding the computer
name before the username (eg:- comp/user), then nothing
happened, any ideas???
.