W2K Joining SMB Server

[William Jojo]

Okay...I've had similar problems and asked the same question several times as
well...

The ONLY way I've been able to make Win2k authenticate against a 2.0.7 or 2.2.0
domain controller is to *UPGRADE* NT 4.0 to 2000. 

Whenever we've tried to get a plain vanilla install to join we still get the
"command value out of range" or some such stupid error.

I've checked the documentation from Microshaft (the Win2k Pro Resource guide)
and it says "sure you can do legacy lanman authentication".

I'm currently looking through the CD to find the answer (as referred on page
544). In the meantime, I can say without doubt that Win2K will work. It's just a
pain in the a** to get it working.

BTW: I did try the instruction from David Bannon on "The Samba 2.2 PDC Howto".
It's very well written and even easier to follow than the 2.0.x stuff.

Also I've found the letter from Manea Mirko who indicates success using the
"patch" from Richard Sharpe which I cannot find (dopey me probably filed it in
the wrong place).

Bill

Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote:
> 
> Hello Mr. Sharpe:
>         Ok heres a little dillema i am having.  I have bulit and tried 2.2.0-cvs,
> 2.2.0-prealpha1, 2.0.7, HEAD 3.0, and TNG.  TNG won't work at all (IT's
> broken and not documented anywhere close to enough!) The 2.2.0 CVS PDC is
> working for my NT4 and W98 clients, it has an odd numbered domain and has
> been compiled using the SAMBA_2_2 tag for cvs.  Moreover mabye a lack of
> judgement on my part but it is in a "production " environment.  Now a lot of
> people say that they have thier samba working with domain logons from W2K ,
> if they could mail me ther smb.conf files (and domaingroup.map,
> domainuser.map and and localuser.map files for those TNG-ers) because there
> are no syntax examples anywhere!!!!! and me bieng silly likes to find syntax
> so that i know that isin't wrong.
> 
> So
> 1. My version of 2.2.0CVS won't work with W2k (I don't know why!)
>         it fits all of the specifed peramiters to work and does not.  (the error
> for a fourth time is "could not connect to domain "domain" because the
> procedure is out of range!"
> 
> 2. 3.0 won't support domain logons in w2k (Sama advertizes this everywhere.)
> 
> 3. tng doesen't have anywhere close to enough documentation (no mention of
> syntax for the *.map files anywhere and thier site is currently down.)
> 
> so I now have to invest in an NT box becuase samba can't do it.
> any help would be apprecieated.
> 
> Thank you for your time.
> Hazen Valliant-Saunders
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