Samba is trying to use hostname instead of username

Pat slu at firerun.net
Sat Dec 2 01:13:24 GMT 2000


I could be wrong, but to me it sounds like the NT clients are trying to join the Samba workgroup thinking that it is
a domain.  A listing of your Global section may help.

Patrick

Jelmer Vernooij wrote:

> There currently is a NT PDC in the network, but the samba server had a separate
> workgroup and the client was set to use that workgroup.
>
> > Are you using a Domain or just a workgroup?  If you are using a Domain, is the Samab machine set up as the PDC
> > or is it the member of a NT controlled domain?
> >
> > Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I've just installed samba at a Linux server in a network with about 100
> > > NT 4 clients. Everything is working fine... except for the password authentication.
> > >
> > > I did some research and found out that samba is trying to validate the password together with the HOSTNAME!
> > > Here are some strings that are used as 'username':
> > >
> > > lok05pc11
> > > Lok05pc11
> > > lok05pc11
> > > LOK05PC11
> > >
> > > lok05pc11 is the hostname of the machine that is trying to log in.
> > >
> > > What am I doing wrong? Why is samba checking all these names?
> > >
> > > Tia,
> > >
> > > Jelmer
>
> --
> cya,
>
> Jelmer
>
> --
> Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at MericleInc.com>
> MericleInc Web Design: http://www.MericleInc.com/





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