Login Problems

[Eric Pilger]

How can the "hosts allow" be different from either of the subnets that
your server is on?

Ilender Linux wrote:

> Hello everybody. I use SAMBA 2.0.7 on Red Hat Linux 7.0 (with ALL the
> patches already installed) and clients in Windows 98 and Windows 98
> Second Edition. The problem I am having is that everyday, at the time
> the users come to work and turn on their machines, its almost
> impossible for them to login the domain. They receive "Bad Password"
> error about 14 to 20 times (I have counted them) until they can log
> in. After that, during the day, if someone restarts its computer, it
> logs at the first try. But if someone turns off his computer for a
> regular time or if the IP address is changed, the errors come back. I
> have read and tried different configuration and options, but none has
> worked. I will appreciate a lot if you help me, cause I don´t want
> Windows NT to work again as the PDC. Here I include my GLOBAL
> PARAMETERS and my IFCONFIG status. Thanks a lot for your
> help! Greetings Jorge SarmientoNetwork AdministratorIlender Peru
> S.A.www.ilender.com.pe  The [global] part of my smb.conf file I use
> is: [global]
>         workgroup = ILENDER_LINUX
>         netbios name = LINUX
>         server string = Samba Server
>         interfaces = eth2
>         encrypt passwords = Yes
>         log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>         max log size = 0
>         name resolve order = wins bcast lmhosts host
>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=16384 SO_RCVBUF=16384
>         logon script = login.bat
>         domain logons = Yes
>         os level = 65
>         preferred master = Yes
>         domain master = Yes
>         dns proxy = No
>         wins support = Yes
>         hosts allow = 172.16.4. my IFCONFIG status is: eth0      Link
> encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:5A:5D:63:C8
>           inet addr:216.244.146.194  Bcast:216.244.146.223
> Mask:255.255.255.224
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:368107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:220499 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:5
>           collisions:159 txqueuelen:100
>           Interrupt:10 Base address:0xcc00 eth1      Link
> encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:10:5A:A0:BA:19
>           inet addr:192.168.1.10  Bcast:192.168.1.255
> Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:22142 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:10642 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:3 txqueuelen:100
>           Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc800 lo        Link encap:Local
> Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
>           RX packets:53701 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:53701 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

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Eric J. Pilger

Systems Administrator

Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology/SOEST

pilger at pgd.hawaii.edu

(808)956-6321