Hi Sorin,

> Was trying to retrace my steps and do some trouble-shooting, and got to 
> samba. 
> Googling a bit I found this page:
> 
> http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/manual4/samba.html
> 
> And this little piece of information;
> 
> "For windows 2000 and XP:
> 
> Disable Domain member: Digitally encrypt or sign secure channel data
> Disable Domain member: Digitally sign secure channel data (when possible)"
> 
> As I understand it, this implies that samba does seem to need clear text 
> passwords. Unfortunately I can't, or actually am not allowed, to use the more 
> lax security setting in Windows, as per instrucations from the university 
> IT-department.
> 
> As far as I can see, this kinda' puts an end to using BPC for backing up 
> Windows-machines. Or...?

Nope - trust me, it works... The doco you are reading is
  a) old
  b) irrelevant to what you are trying to achieve.
It is referring to accessing a samba server from Windows.

Can you pleasee the mount.cifs command I specified in my previous
email?

You need to get some form of file level access working before you
worry about autofs.  You could also try using smbclient:

  # list shared
  smbclient -L servername -U user@domain
  
  # connect to a share and give you an interactive shell to browse
  smbclient //servername/share -U user@domain

Report back how these tests goes (preferablly mount.cifs since that's
how you need it to work in the end).

Regards,

Chris Bennett
cgb

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