Windows XP and Samba

[cjsmith]

I'm having trouble accessing my home directory, which resides on a Linux server running Samba, from my laptop, which is a Windows XP machine.

Details:

• This used to work fine when I was accessing that directory from a machine running Windows NT Server.
• This works for Rob, from his identical Windows XP laptop.
• This works for me *IF* I change my password to 'cjsmith' on both the laptop and the server. (The Linux server, of course, doesn't want to let me use such a stupid password, but I can override that if I'm root.) I am willing (grudgingly) to change my password to work around what is obviously a bug or extremely bad design on somebody's part, but I'm not willing to have a password identical to my username.
• This does NOT work for me if I use the password Rob uses. I have tried about six other passwords, and none of them work either.

Anybody know what to try next?

Comments

[tytso.livejournal.com]

Hmm.... have you tried looking at the log files in /var/log/samba, and possibily turn up the debugging level to the smbd process --- either by adding -d 3 to the command line when starting up smbd, or by adding the following to the global parameters section of smb.conf:

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I had looked at the log files, which were useless. Thanks for the debug level suggestion -- will try that tonight.