[Samba] smbclient - session setup failed: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL
John H Terpstra
jht at samba.org
Wed Jun 11 21:06:54 GMT 2003
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Dan Newcombe wrote:
> I have been using Samba for years and am at my wits end with this problem.
>
> I have 3.0.0beta1-1 installed (actually, it's the latest Debian unstable
> package). I just upgraded it - it was working fine yesterday.
>
> I have rejoined my machine to the domain (did this by creating the account
> using NT4's Server Manager to add it and then
> net rpc join CCSU -U dnewcomb%password -W CCSU
> (The domain is a w2k domain). The above worked fine (so it says :)
>
> I then tried to connect to my machine
>
> smbclient //mordor/dnewcomb -U dnewcomb%password -W CCSU
> and I get
> session setup failed: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL
>
> However, if I "mistype" my password, I get
> session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
>
> so at least it is hitting the DC to validate the password.
> My smb.conf has (and was working yesterday)
> [global]
> workgroup = CCSU
> server string = Mordor
> invalid users = root
> log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
> max log size = 1000
> syslog = 0
> security = domain
> encrypt passwords = true
> socket options = TCP_NODELAY
> wins server = 168.25.45.60
> dns proxy = no
> obey pam restrictions = yes
Add:
idmap uid = 10000-15000
idmap gid = 10000-15000
See if that helps.
- John T.
>
> [homes]
> comment = Home Directories
> browseable = no
> writable = yes
> create mask = 0700
> directory mask = 0700
>
> I'm guessing it is something with verifying my machine as part of the
> domain or something, but I am stuck as to how to go about figuring out
> what the problem is. A little more verbosity in the reason for the
> failure would have helped :) unfortunatly the debug output means nothing
> to me. About the only thing in /var/log/samba is log.smbd which has
> [2003/06/11 17:01:49, 1] sam/idmap_tdb.c:db_idmap_init(331)
> idmap gid range missing or invalid
> idmap will be unable to map foreign SIDs
> but that shouldn't be an issue should it as I'm not using winbind.
>
> Thanks for any help...I'm losing what hair I have left - meaning my
> eyebrows :)
>
--
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org
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