Possibly "lanman auth = yes" will do it.
It's weired... I tried some different settings, with following results: letting Windows send encrypted passwords, encrypted passwords enabled in smb.conf (with ntlm auth/lanman auth or only one of both...) leads to the mentioned error. disabling encrypted passwords in smb.conf makes windows say "invalid parameter" on connecting. turning password encryption off on both sides, it works! but i think with having password encryption disabled the windows NT style clients won't have acces anymore. Before the update the crypted way worked... I also increased the verbosity of the logs, some interesting lines could be: check_ntlm_password: sam authentication for user [XYZ] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_WRONG_PASSWORD check_ntlm_password: Authentication for user [XYZ] -> [XYZ] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_WRONG_PASSWORD the user is previously recognized.
Adam hit the nail on the head. The lanman auth parameter is what you need. You will also want to upgrade samba. There were a few releases that had bugs with that setting after it was disabled by default.
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/samba:/STABLE/openSUSE_11...
Thanks for the fast help. I just upgraded to the latest Samba Version samba-3.4.2-1.1 (also updated all corresponding packages). No problems with the Windows NT as before. But Windows 98SE doesn't even find the server anymore in the network neighborhood. Even accessing by \\IP doesn't work. Getting following error on connecting of network devices: The following error occured while reconnecting [...] Permanent connection not available. I set the samba logs to max verbosity but getting no entry at all. No firewall is blocking the network interface. Here the global part of my smb.conf: # smb.conf is the main Samba configuration file. You find a full commented # version at /usr/share/doc/packages/samba/examples/smb.conf.SUSE if the # samba-doc package is installed. # Date: 2006-11-27 [global] workgroup = PANE printing = cups printcap name = cups printcap cache time = 750 cups options = raw map to guest = Bad User include = /etc/samba/dhcp.conf logon path = \\%L\profiles\.msprofile logon home = \\%L\%U\.9xprofile logon drive = P: usershare allow guests = No add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d /var/lib/nobody -s /bin/false %m$ domain logons = Yes domain master = Yes netbios name = PANE security = user passdb backend = smbpasswd:/etc/smbpasswd local master = Yes os level = 65 preferred master = Yes wins support = Yes encrypt passwords = Yes lanman auth = Yes ntlm auth = Yes log level = all:10 Thanks for further assistance, Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org