[GLLUG] FreeBSD smbfs question

[C. Ulrich]

Greetings,

I have an interesting problem that I've been working on this morning and
no amount of googling is helping out.

The remote machine, "powerface", is serving a small samba share called
"test". Samba is configured for workgroup "EILNET". Samba also has WINS
name resolution enabled. No apparent configuration problem there, since
all works well in both Windows XP and the Samba client utilities on a
third machine.

But FreeBSD's (5.1) smbfs stuff isn't cooperating. Here's a copy of the
relevent portion of /etc/nsmb.conf:

[default]
nbns=192.168.0.3
workgroup=EILNET

[powerface:eil]
password=<pass>

When I try the following on the FreeBSD machine, I get an error:

[apex:~]# mount_smbfs -N //eil at powerface/test /share
mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Authentication error

Where it says <pass>, I have tried both a plaintext password as well as
the output of "smbutil crypt" to no avail. I have also tried both yes
and no for the "encrypt passwords" entry in smb.conf on the server. I
have read the smbutil manpage, the mount_smbfs manpage, the comments in
/usr/share/examples/etc/nsmb.conf, and an article on oreillynet.com plus
extensive googling and I can't see what I'm doing wrong. Nothing stands
out in the local FreeBSD logs, nor the server's Samba or system logs. 

Anybody have any suggestions?

Charles Ulrich
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