This was the last bug I’ve encountered when trying to get my music collection running inside a Squeezeserver. I’ve bought a ReadyNAS Duo, and created two public shares, Aleks & Ingrid. Those were also the login names on my XP machine. Trying to network browser the server gave me:
“Logon failure: account currently disabled.”
Googling for the error was not helpful, so I am writing this post for those of you who are being driven mad by this problem right now.
The problem is that ReadyNAS is creating users “Aleks” and “Ingrid” on samba, whose accounts are disabled. When your XP machine helpfully tries to log in as Aleks, it gets denied. The solution is:
- Get ssh running on your ReadyNAS (see http://www.readynas.com Developer’s Corner)
- Login as root, and run smbpasswd to change password for your user names. Make them match passwords on you XP. Mine were blank.
- You should be able to browse and connect to the server.
Good luck,
Thanks for this. I found that converting an existing setup based on share level security (with some NFS shares recently added) to user security mode left me with users and shares of the same name, which generates the same error.
I resolved so far by adding a middle initial to the share names.
This post still gets hits years later, looks like ReadyNAS is still in use. If you are reading this, you might want to upgrade your system. I’ve just upgraded from ReadyNAS to Synergy 710, which is 10X faster and easier to administer. Pricey, but so worth it, browsing my photo collection is a snap.
Well, here’s another post, years later. I haven’t touched my NAS for a couple of years. I finally ran out of space and, having the “old” Radiator, upgraded it so I could use 2TB disks. Went through the setup process with the usual hair tearing regarding permissions. Repopulated the NAS from backup. All good. Shutdown. Today, got this totally stupid message and have been fighting it ever since. Latest goround:
ReadyNAS:~# smbpasswd
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Failed to find entry for user root.
ReadyNAS:~#
I’m tired of wasting time on permissions and security with people who probably know UNIX but don’t have a clue about Windows and less of a clue about interfacing. Seeing high marks in many venues for Synology, I’m shutting down this piece of unaccesible junk and moving on to Synology.