Help!
I'm trying to share some files and a printer on my PC with my Apple G4 laptop.
I'm connecting via Airport, which works fine for sharing the internet connction on the PC.
However, when I try to connect to my PC on the 'Connect To Server' window it finds the PC at smb://192.168.0.1, then prompts for SMB Filesystem Authentication. When I enter my username and password it returns error code -5023 (Authentication failure).
I have Appletalk off on the Mac. The local area network has 'client for Microsoft networks', 'File and printer sharing', and 'Internet protocol Tcp/ip' turned on. I have set two folder to 'share' in their properties and they are showing up in WORKGROUP under My Network places.
As you can probably guess this is a home setup and although I'm okay on the Mac, I'm new to the PC side of things.
I would welcome any suggestions as its now my third day and I'm close to trading all my hi-tech equipment for a set of lowtech gardening tools.
Much appreciated,
Graham
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thanks, for replying.
I have tried both my PC and MAC logins and still no joy.
The mac help pages even suggest that I should be able to log in as a guest!
I'm not too sure how the users and passwords control panel works ie. How do I set up my account on the laptop to be a user on the PC?
btw. from the appleerrorcodes.com site the -5023 error is "AFP User not authorized"
Thanks
Your account on your powerbook has nothing to do with being a user on the PC. The PC has a user or users. Each user on the PC has a login and pass. You should probably be using the login/pass of the windows user that is currently logged in. When you bring up the connection window on the mac use the login/pass of the windows user that is currently using the windows machine. Guest wont work unless you have the PC set up to accept guest connections.
Many thanks,
I've tried creating a new user on the PC and still no joy. I have been logging out and back in again between tests.
A friend has told me that these users that I can see are just local users. Is there something I need to do to allow users access via the network? All of the groups that I allow the user to be a member of are local ie. in folder GRAHAMSPC001.
The network is working as far as TCP/IP because I can connect to the internet from the Mac via the PC.
thanks again,
-Graham
When you get the authentication window for the pc, does it have three blanks? one for user, one for workgroup or domain and one for password? what are you entering in the workgroup field? this has got to be something basic we are all missing, as all the experts have done this a million times and it should be simple. Walk us through the exact steps you are taking, please. We'll figure it out. Also, on your mac and pc, make sure the ip addresses are in the same subnet. On your mac, check the network control panel. on your pc, go to a command prompt and type ipconfig /all and make sure your addresses and network masks aren't the problem.
Ben
Many thanks,
I've tried creating a new user on the PC and still no joy. I have been logging out and back in again between tests.
A friend has told me that these users that I can see are just local users. Is there something I need to do to allow users access via the network? All of the groups that I allow the user to be a member of are local ie. in folder GRAHAMSPC001.
The network is working as far as TCP/IP because I can connect to the internet from the Mac via the PC.
thanks again,
-Graham
Anyway,
The authentication window has: -
1: WORKGROUP
2: MGUZMA
3: [password]
I change the username(2) to be the same as an existing (or logged on) user on the PC.
Then the -5023 error is returned.
I did the ip address checks and the ip address have different last digits PC = .1 and the mac = .118
The router address shown at the mac was the same as the PC IP address.
DHCP enable = no at the PC
Configure using DHCP was selected at the mac.
The subnet masks were the same = 255.255.255.0
hope this helps,
-G
Anyway,
The authentication window has: -
1: WORKGROUP
2: MGUZMA
3: [password]
I change the username(2) to be the same as an existing (or logged on) user on the PC.
Then the -5023 error is returned.
I did the ip address checks and the ip address have different last digits PC = .1 and the mac = .118
The router address shown at the mac was the same as the PC IP address.
DHCP enable = no at the PC
Configure using DHCP was selected at the mac.
The subnet masks were the same = 255.255.255.0
hope this helps,
-G
Not sure if this is relevent but the 'advanced tcp/ip settings reports that I have an 'empty primary WINS address' !!
also the 'prefered DNS server' is blank !
Also the 'share permissions' for the folder that I'm trying to share are: -
[user GRAHAMSPC001\user] with full control/change/read al on.
Does this mean that only user on GRAHAMSPC001 can access the PC?
Not sure if this is relevent but the 'advanced tcp/ip settings reports that I have an 'empty primary WINS address' !!
also the 'prefered DNS server' is blank !
Also the 'share permissions' for the folder that I'm trying to share are: -
[user GRAHAMSPC001\user] with full control/change/read al on.
Does this mean that only user on GRAHAMSPC001 can access the PC?
Not sure if this is relevent but the 'advanced tcp/ip settings reports that I have an 'empty primary WINS address' !!
also the 'prefered DNS server' is blank !
Also the 'share permissions' for the folder that I'm trying to share are: -
[user GRAHAMSPC001\user] with full control/change/read al on.
Does this mean that only user on GRAHAMSPC001 can access the PC?
I get this problem all the time when setting up plain old Samba sharing connections. Exact same error. Here's my workaround:
When it displays the address of the machine it's about to connect to (smb://192.168.0.1), change it to:
smb://username:password@19
(replace all the words with their appropriate values, of course)
Nope : (
Tried just about every possible name/password uppercase/lowercase etc I can think of.
I feel as though there is some setting ...somewhere higher up that is blocking users from accessing my PC.
Anybody, got any ideas where to start looking for network/global or whatever settings on the PC.
Or is there a way of returning security/network settings to a default?
Just a thought, a couple of weeks ago I found a Trojan lurking about on my hard drive, I've just looked and one of the quarantined files is netservices.exe. Could this be related?
Thanks -G
phew.. I'm connected.
if anybody is still interested...
..the problem was in the admin tools >> local security settings >> security settings >> local policies >> user rights assignment >> access this computer from the network
I had to add my users in there.
I ran the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer: -
http://www.microsoft.com/t
which pointed me towards a microsoft local security settings page: -
http://support.microsoft.c
which showed me how to access those settings which I checked and well the rests history.
Does this mean that I get the points : )
Can I call myself an expert?
Do I get to grow a beard?
Can I go back into my garden again it seems like days since I last ventured out.
Thanks for all your help, is it possible for you to share the points?
if there's anyone there let me know,
bye -G
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by: weedPosted on 2003-04-24 at 17:04:21ID: 8391976
Authentication Failure....Basically means it doesnt like your name and password. You are using the login and pass for the PC and not your mac login and pass right?