Quantum Snap Server and Samba NT Domain

[Chris Wood]

No luck. :(  I did already have the machine setup as a workstation (but I
did it as all uppercase, not lowercase) without any luck.  I tried it the
lowercase way too, but smbpasswd seems to convert it back to
uppercase.  For some reason, my samba install doesn't seem to pay
attention as to whether machines are setup in the smbpasswd file or
not.  I can connect from machines that aren't setup in that file but the
users are.  (I've never understood why it doesn't enforce this.)

The Snap server requires a valid logon name (username), if I give it a bad
one it will tell me that the server rejects the login.  If I give it a
good one, it gives me an error that says "SMB: failed to connect to IPC$
on domain controller".

When users try to connect to a share that they don't have access to
(because I can't give them access), the snappy will show them as connected
and validated but with no files open.

On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, David Atkinson wrote:

> Hi,
> Sounds like you need the Snap Server to participate in the NT domain, which requires a machine account to be created for the Snap Server on the PDC (this is the machines netbios name with an appended $.). If you are using /etc/passwd security add a line like
> 
> 	snappy$::700:700::/tmp:/dev/null
> 
> where the sever is called snappy. The password should then be set to snappy (the server's netbios name, all lowercase).
> 
> 	# passwd snappy$
> 	New UNIX password : snappy
> 
> if you use encrypted passwords use
> 
> 	smbpasswd -a -m snappy
> 
> you need to add the above line to your /etc/passwd file first, but smbpasswd takes care of the rest.
> 
> hope this helps
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Chris Wood [SMTP:cwood at wencor.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, December 07, 2000 7:26 AM
> To:	samba-ntdom at us5.samba.org
> Subject:	Quantum Snap Server and Samba NT Domain
> 
> 
> I've been running our Samba as the PDC on it's own NT domain for over a
> year.  This has worked well for authenticating Win95 boxes and handling
> shares. We are now moving some of our shares to a Quantum Snap Server 4100
> which supports NT Domain Security, but I can't get it to work correctly.
> 
> It wants to use a regular username/password to list the users/groups
> available on the server.  It DOES seem to authenticate correctly against
> the Samba server, BUT in order to administer the access list to the Shares
> on the Snap server it requires that it downloads the list of usernames
> from the PDC.
> 
> I assume that if it let me type in the usernames myself, that it would
> work correctly, but it is written so that it will only use the list from
> the PDC.
> 
> 1. Does Samba have the ability to send this username/group
> list?  (I'm guessing not.)
> 
> 2. Anyone else out there doing this with any success?
> 
> Samba Server:
> Samba 2.0.7
> DG/UX 4.2mu05 (Data General)
> 
> 

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