request not supported (setgroups call)

Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl at samba.org
Sun Apr 9 01:32:02 GMT 2000


On Sat, 8 Apr 100, kill -9 wrote:

> I know I for one need the domain functionality to use in our network, for nt
> clients. Therefore, I need to be able to log into it from a  win98 machine as
> well. I am getting the same problems. While I'm posting, I have a question.
> When upgrading the samba tng package, what does one need to do to
> ensure it works properly. IE. Do I need to recreate anything, (smbpasswd file,
> SIDS, anything?), after redoing the binaries, etc? Or do I just need to
> make install and restart everything?

yeah, that's pretty much it.  if starting from scratch, you need to do
touch private/smbpasswd because it won't create smbpasswd if it doesn't
exist.

> Alex
> > 
> > pete, all,
> > 
> > you don't need TNG if you are using lose9x.
> > 
> > these clients do not have the concept of domains in them in any way,
> > shape, or form.
> > 
> > they can, however, download profiles from a server, and you need to type
> > in a username, domain name and password to get it.
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 8 Apr 2000 perickson at mail.ipool.com wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi everyone - I'm having problems logging into my samba-tng 1.9 domain.  I
> > > get an error stating "The request is not supported by the network" on my
> > > Win98 laptop.  The computer trust account  and username are both added to
> > > the smbpasswd file as well as /etc/passwd .  My log.netlogon files
> > > contains the following error:
> > > 
> > > ERROR: sys setgroups call failed!
> > > TODO: verify that the rid exists
> > > 
> > > In a previous post regarding this problem, someone said that they solved
> > > the problem by reverting to tng-1.0 .  I was wondering if there's some
> > > other way to solve this without reverting to an old version.  If anyone
> > > has any info or suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Pete Erickson
> > > perickson at ipool.com  
> > > 
> > 
> > <a href=" mailto:lkcl at samba.org" > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton    </a>
> > <a href=" http://cb1.com/~lkcl"  > Samba and Network Development   </a>
> > <a href=" http://samba.org"      > Samba Web site                  </a>
> > <a href=" http://mcp.com"        > Macmillan Technical Publishing  </a>
> >  
> > ISBN1578701503 DCE/RPC over SMB: Samba and Windows NT Domain Internals
> > 
> > 
> 

<a href=" mailto:lkcl at samba.org" > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton    </a>
<a href=" http://cb1.com/~lkcl"  > Samba and Network Development   </a>
<a href=" http://samba.org"      > Samba Web site                  </a>
<a href=" http://mcp.com"        > Macmillan Technical Publishing  </a>
 
ISBN1578701503 DCE/RPC over SMB: Samba and Windows NT Domain Internals



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