NT Authentication not working?

[Andrew Perrin - Demography]

Looks like you don't have a smbpasswd file, or it's in the wrong place.
Samba looks like it's looking for it in

/usr/local/bin/samba//private/smbpasswd

and not finding it.

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Andrew J. Perrin - aperrin at demog.berkeley.edu - NT/Unix Admin/Support
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On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Akira Matsuno wrote:

> I am getting an error when I try to connect to a Samba share from my NT
> workstation.. It comes up with Network Error 2108 occurred... 
> This happens when I'm logged into the NT Workstation with one account,
> and try to connect to a private Samba share using a different account.
> (I have created the unix accounts from Jerry's NT2PASSWD perl script
> with no problems.. thanx Jerry :)
> 
> Eg.  NT Logon Userid: matsaki
>      and in File Manager, I map drive F:
>      Path: \\IMAPS1\villenh
>      Connnect as: villenh
> 
> I supply the correct password for villenh , but I get the Network Error
> 2108... If I cancel out of the map network drive, I find that it did
> actually do the mapping, because I can see the shared F directory...
> 
> I looked in the smb log file, but am not sure what is going on here, and
> would appreciate if someone could maybe explain to me what is
> happening?  I have no idea what Network Error 2108 is, and have checked
> the Technet, but found nothing... Looking at the log, I can only guess
> that I have a problem with my smbpasswd file???
> 
> If I login to the NT box with villenh, I don't have any problems mapping
> to the share....ie . no errors with this method..
> 
> Here is my smb log:
>  1998/08/28 15:50:00 Transaction 39 of length 191
> switch message SMBsesssetupX (pid 2872)
> Domain=[IMAD]  NativeOS=[Windows NT 1381] NativeLanMan=[]
> sesssetupX:name=[villenh]
> password server IMAD1 rejected the password
> startsmbfilepwent: unable to open file
> /usr/local/bin/samba//private/smbpasswd
> iterate_getsmbpwnam: unable to open smb password database.
> Couldn't find user villenh in smb_passwd file.
> NT Password did not match ! Defaulting to Lanman
> startsmbfilepwent: unable to open file
> /usr/local/bin/samba//private/smbpasswd
> iterate_getsmbpwnam: unable to open smb password database.
> Couldn't find user villenh in smb_passwd file.
> 1998/08/28 15:50:06 error packet at line 685 cmd=115 (SMBsesssetupX)
> eclass=2 ecode=2
> error string = No such file or directory
> 1998/08/28 15:50:10 Transaction 40 of length 191
> switch message SMBsesssetupX (pid 2872)
> Domain=[IMAD]  NativeOS=[Windows NT 1381] NativeLanMan=[]
> sesssetupX:name=[villenh]
> skipping NetWkstaUserLogon with password server IMAD1
> password server IMAD1 accepted the password
> villenh is in 1 groups
> 100
> uid 1072 registered to name villenh
> Clearing default real name
> Chained message
> switch message SMBtconX (pid 2872)
> ACCEPTED: validated uid ok as non-guest
> found free connection number 61
> Connect path is /usr/samba/samba1/villenh
> villenh is in 1 groups
> 100
> chdir to /usr/samba/samba1/villenh
> chdir to /sbin/init.d
> 1998/08/28 15:50:13 c110255 (142.205.219.223) connect to service villenh
> as user villenh (uid=1072,gid=100) (pid 2
> 872)
> 1998/08/28 15:50:13 tconX service=villenh user=villenh cnum=61
> ~
> 
> 
> -- 
> * Akira Matsuno
> * Network Administrator / Oracle DBA
> * Statistics Canada
> * Ottawa Ontario
>