W2K Joining SMB Server

[Manea Mirko]

On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 10:50:06AM -0500, William Jojo wrote:

> 
> 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).


The patch is against a cvs snapshot (~ 5 nov), but was only a workaround.
I attach it.

Now I am testing tng and it seems very good. W2K joins the domain without
problems (after creating the machine account). I am also storing accounts
in LDAP.

> 
> 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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> > enlightenment...''
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