Lars, I was not using an account password.  Looks like that is what was
causing my problems.  When I tacked the',' to the end of a shorter than
eight character password, the connection worked.  I played a little and
it seems to connect up fine now with various combinations!!!!

Thanks for the help!!  Samba looks very promising in our environment.

mark hocraffer
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%To: WILLIAM J. CROGHAN / 1092, 06; MARK A. HOCRAFFER / 1082, 47;
%CHARLES D. MEEKER / 1082, 47
%Subject: Re: Samba Passwords
%Date: Saturday, February 08, 1997 8:57AM
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%Mark,
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%the password validation that I added for the MPE/iX version
%of Samba needs a user ID in the form USER.ACCOUNT and the
%password(s) in the form USERPASS,ACCTPASS (like ftp client).
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%It worked for me with short passwords and even when one of
%them was blank i.e. no user password for example. I do not
%remember if I also tried both passwords blank i.e. "," only.
%I fail to recall if I tried smbclient only or also PC...
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%Can you give me an example for trying? (with XXX passwords)
%
%Lars
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