TNG works with Win2k, fails with Win98

[Lonnie J. Borntreger]

Finally.  I'm no longer the only one talking about this problem.

STATUS: Samba TNG does not support Win9x authentication.  I ONLY works for
users on NT or 2000.

SOLUTION: Somebody with access to an NT PDC based domain needs to do a
netmon trace of a successful domain login and a successful GETDC request
from a Win9x machine and send it to Luke Leighton (lkcl at samba.org).  Once he
has that, he will fix the implementation.

CAVEAT: I've asked for someone to do that trace several times in the last
4-6 months, and no-one has stepped forward and done it.

TTFN,
Lonnie Borntreger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-ntdom at samba.org [mailto:samba-ntdom at samba.org]On Behalf Of
> Patrick J. LoPresti
> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 7:09 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list SAMBA-NTDOM
> Subject: TNG works with Win2k, fails with Win98
>
>
> We have been authenticating Win98 users against Samba 2.0.5a for a
> long time, but I need a real PDC by next week (ahem) or the Powers
> That Be just might start imposing a real NT infrastructure.
>
> So I checked out TNG this afternoon at 1:50 P.M. EST (6:50 UTC), built
> it on a test machine, hacked up a smb.conf file to make it Domain
> Controller for a domain named "TEST", and copied smbpasswd from our
> existing installation.
>
> The result is that a Windows 2000 box can join the domain and
> authenticate users.  Nice work!  The native Win2k user admin tools
> tend to crash, but some command-line thingamys in the Resource Kit
> provide enough functionality (specifically, adding a domain account to
> the local Administrators group) that we can live with it.
>
> The only problem is that I can no longer authenticate Windows 98.  It
> says "your password is invalid or your logon share is inaccessible" or
> somesuch.  Note that this is the same TEST domain and user login which
> worked on Windows 2000, so I do not think my configuration is the
> problem.  But who knows.
>
> I have a 55K level 10 debug log of the entire failed effort; I would
> be glad to send that and my smb.conf to any interested parties.  I am
> also a reasonably competent C hacker with lots of spare time available
> this weekend...
>
>  - Pat
>