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I have a samba server set up with a couple of shares that I would like to access using authentication. As an initial test I was able to set them up to allow guest access, then I disabled that, enabled the 'user' authentication, and added+enabled a user using smbpasswd. I am unable to connect to the share from my windows machine, using the username@ipaddress for the username field. The windows machine is connected to an AD domain, and wonder if that is causing any of the issues I am having.

here is the share configuration

[share]
comment = an example
path = /home/spowers/Public/share
browsable = yes
guest ok = no
write list = spowers
valid users = spowers
read only = no
create mask = 0755

In the samba logs I get:

create_connection_server_info failed: NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED

Any advice?

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I am unable to connect to the share from my windows machine, using the username@ipaddress for the username field

Enter spowers in the username text box to see if it works.

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I am using the correct credential and IP I place of usernamr and ipaddress. I was showing the pattern of information and not the literal value. – spowers Sep 11 '11 at 10:27
Which method you use to connect: \\IP? Why did you need @ipaddress for username? – quanta Sep 11 '11 at 11:38
\\ip\share the reason for the @ipaddress is because I want authentication against the samba server, and not the domain my workstation is joined to. That is equivalent notation to ipaddress\username. – spowers Sep 12 '11 at 13:20
observation, it does work correctly when the username/password matches my domain login, even though the server is not tied into the domain. Maybe this is working with a ticket instead of the actual credential set.... – spowers Sep 12 '11 at 19:13
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