How to connect NT 4.0 wks to samba pre 3.0.0 Domain?

[John Weber]

Hi,

Look at the entries in your smbpasswd, make sure the 5th field (the one
with the [] ) only has a U for users and a W for machines. I was getting a
D in this field with the other letter. This means account disabled.

make sure all the daemons are running like
http://www.kneschke.de/projekte/samba_tng/faq/configuration.php3
describes.

The talk on the list seems to be that smbpasswd is being phased out. The
preferred way seems to be "rpcclient". Not documented that I could find
was to use the "samuserset" command from within rpcclient to change
passwords. There looks like some online help built into rpcclient in the
style of ftp, just type a "?" to get a list of commands an "? command" to
get more help. (see same URL as above) There's also a man page with
rpcclient.

Use 
samuserset machine$ -p machine 

from rpcclient to properly set the machine password.

There was no attachment of your smb.conf

John

On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Bostjan Muller wrote:

> * On 19-03-00 at 09:00 John Weber (jweber at math.cudenver.edu) wrote:
> +----Here quoted text begins----+
> [...] 
> > Look at http://www.kneschke.de/projekte/samba_tng/index.php3. It seems
> > that there's a new branch called TNG (The Next Generation). There's
> > instruction how to get the CVS for this. I've been able to get domain
> > logons and profiles to work. It's alpha. I'm trying for printers now. Even
> > these docs are lacking.
> [...] 
> +----and here the quote ends----+
> Hi!
> 
> Went there and compiled and installed the code - than I added users via
> smbpasswd command, checked in the smbpasswd file and the users were there, so
> were the encrypted passes, but any kind of login that included password failed
> (and yes I do have the users set up in the passwd file). Even trying to mount a
> smb share on a win98 machine fails if passwords are necesary to mount a share,
> it works ok without a password though - same goes for the samba machine
> (everyone can login ok if passwords are disabled - no password option).
> 
> I also cannto login into a domain - on a NT wks 4.0 sp5. I get a no controller
> error.
> 
> Here is what my smb.conf looks like (as an attachment).
> 
> Could you please advise me what to do - in your own experience and knowledge -
> you seem to have it working...
> 
> THX in advance!
> 
> Bo¹tjan
> 
> 
> 
> 
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