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Windows 2000, Samba: The account is not authorized to log in from this station
Problem:
When trying to access shared files on a Linux server running Samba, Windows 2000 fails with the following error message: "The account is not authorized to log in from this station"
 
Solution:
As usual, our friends from Seattle are completely lost. The real problem is usually somewhere else; the Samba server is expecting cleartext passwords but the client is using encrypted passwords.

In your smb.conf file, add
"encrypt passwords = yes"

Then restart Samba and try connecting again.

 
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