Serving files across subnets through Samba?

[Steve H.]

Quick rundown of my network:

–OD and Samba running on 10.4.10 Server
–2 10.4.10 Servers sharing files (authentication done through OD)
–All servers and my MacBook Pro located on subnet 172.20.1.X
–All client machines on subnets 172.20.2.X through 172.20.4.X

If I fire up Windows on my MacBook Pro, and click Start > Run > \\fileserver.domain.com\ I get a login prompt, whereupon I can authenticate as any of my OD users and access files on the server. If I do the same thing from a client machine on one of the other subnets I get a login prompt, but when I put in a valid username and password, the login prompt disappears and then reappears, this time with the username field filled in with [Windows name of machine]\[OD name that I just put in] and the password field blank. If I try this three times, the person’s OD account is then locked out.

How can I fix this?

[Magus255]

When you say Samba is that the built in Windows sharing service Samba or did you install/upgrade Samba seperatly?

[Steve H.]

Just the built-in Windows file sharing.

[Steve H.]

OK, turns out it wasn’t a subnet problem at all. The Windows user who needed access was repeatedly locking out his OD account–he had installed some kind of password manager and then put in the wrong password. Then the password manager would hit his account with the wrong password 3 times and lock it out.

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