Login problems on solaris 2.5.1 with samba 2.0.3

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

you have a bug in your OS which either truncates usernames to 8 chars or
strips the $ off the end of accounts.  this is a bug in getpwnam()
implementation.


On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Erik Duisters wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've installed samba 2.0.3 on a sparcstation 5 running solaris 2.5.1.
> I've configured samba as a logon server, created account in 
> smbpasswd etc.
> 
> There is no problem in joining PC in the domain, but as soon as I 
> want to log in, I get the error message: C00000078.
> 
> Looking through the log files, I see the following message:              
> 
> rpc_server/srv_netlog.c:get_md4pw(266)
> get_md4pw: Workstation $: no account in domain
> 
> When I run the same version of samba on Linux, everything works.
> Does anybody have any ideas about this?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Erik
> 

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