[ale] Authentication problem

[Dan Newcombe]

Are you sure the win95 box isn't sending encrypted passwords?
Samba doesn't do them that well.

On Fri, 31 Jul 1998, Jeffery Tillotson wrote:

> I am running SAMBA 1.9.17p4 on a Red Hat Linux 5.0 (kernal 2.032) box.  The
> problem I just noticed is an error that looks like this in the
> /var/log/message file
> 	Jul 31 08:36:17 linux PAM_pwdb[1437]: 1 authentication failure; (uid=0) ->
> 	jeff for samba service
> 
> SAMBA holds profiles for users for win95 machines as well as giving share
> rights to directories and printers(basic SAMBA stuff).  The thing I don't
> understand is I still have the proper access to printers, directories, and
> everything else even with this message.  
> 
> Could someone offer a bit of assistance on this?  I have read the
> documentation in /usr/doc/samba-1.9.14p4 and the man pages and havn't come
> up with an answer.       
> 
> Is this message something I shold be concerned with?  If it is something to
> be concerned with, any ideas on how to fix it?  
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>