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Failed to initiate SAMBA server on Ubuntu 9.10

Asked by ddreamer

I have run

sudo apt-get purge samba
sudo apt-get install samba

for a brand-new installation.

ps aux | grep smb
       showed 2 processes. Is it normal or should be one process?

smbclient -L localhost
       responded "Server requested plaintext password but 'client plaintext auth' is disabled
                          session setup failed: SUCCESS - 0"

You guys have any idea?

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Best Iowan (iowan) said : 		#1

My (8.04) server has a couple of instances of smb running.
See if the following line is in /etc/samba/smb.conf:
   encrypt passwords = true

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ddreamer (ddreamer) said : 		#2

Dear Allen Dye:
    Thank you for your answer. I found the problem is the newly installed firestarter program. My samba could work even with encrypt passwords=no. Anyway, thank you very much.

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ddreamer (ddreamer) said : 		#3

In addition:
    After removing firestarter, the samba worked well... However, reinstallation of firestarter caused the bad message again, even if I stopped the firestarter. I have to uninstall firestarter to get samba run normally.

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ddreamer (ddreamer) said : 		#4

Correction for previous second post:
      encrypt passwords=true is very important.