NT Domain problem

[Richard Sharpe]

At 10:24 AM 10/16/00 -0700, James W. Beauchamp wrote:
>Dean:
>I believe you have one problem :
>1) I don't believe you want Domain Logons = yes, this is for Samba acting as
>a PDC I believe.

No, this is not true. Domain logons is a misnamed parameter that supports
Win9X style logons.

For Samba to act as a PDC, you need a few other parameters ... Like encrypt
passwords = yes and smb passwd file = some file and security = user and so on.

>Try that and see if that clears up the confusion.
>P.S. I assume TEST is the name of your NT PDC in the ZANERAY.COM domain.
>Also check and see if it is legal to have .COM on the end of ZANERAY.  This
>may be causing problems as well.
>
>Hope this helps..
>
>James
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dean Hamilton" <dean at zaneray.com>
>To: <samba-ntdom at us4.samba.org>
>Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 7:06 AM
>Subject: NT Domain problem
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to set up a samba server on Linux 6.2 using Samba 2.0.6, and I
>have
>> everything working fine with one exception.  I can successfully see the
>linux
>> machine from my NT workstation via network neighborhood, and also access
>> resources on the linux machine.  However, when I reboot my NT Workstation
>and
>> login to the domain, I get an error indicating that the PDC for the domain
>could
>> not be found, even though our local NT server is up and running.  If I
>stop smbd
>> and nmbd on the linux machine the error goes away.
>>
>> The following is the contents of my smb.conf
>>
>> # Global parameters
>> [global]
>>         workgroup = ZANERAY.COM
>>         netbios name = ZRLINUX
>>         server string = ZRLINUX
>>         interfaces = eth0 205.138.111.xxx/255.255.255.224
>>         bind interfaces only = Yes
>>         security = DOMAIN
>>         encrypt passwords = Yes
>>         password server = TEST
>>         log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>>         max log size = 50
>>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>>         domain logons = Yes
>>         os level = 0
>>         local master = No
>>         dns proxy = No
>>         wins server = 205.138.111.xxx
>>
>> [homes]
>>         comment = Home Directories
>>         read only = No
>>         browseable = No
>>
>> [printers]
>>         comment = All Printers
>>         path = /var/spool/samba
>>         print ok = Yes
>>         browseable = No
>>
>> [zrlinux_data]
>>         path = /data
>>         read only = No
>>
>>
>> Any ideas as to why I am getting this error and how to solve it would be
>greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dean Hamilton
>>
>>
>
>
>

Regards
-------
Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba