Symptoms
Assume that Basic authentication is used in a crawl rule in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. When you try to crawl content resources that are located on a UNIX server that is running Samba, you receive the following error message:
Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl this content.
Resolution
To resolve this issue, apply the following hotfix packages: