WIN NT 4.0 NO GO & YES I HAVE ENCRYPTED PASSWORDS

[Christian Barth]

>     I am in the process of upgrading my existing samba 2.05a PDC on an
> old box running RH6.2 to a new faster box running Samba 2.2.1a on a
> RH7.1 box. 
If you have set up RedHat 7.1 with the default medium security the 
ports needed for samba a blocked by a software firewall. Look for 
ipchains/iptables.

Christian


> I have all the same files and directories as the old samba
> box including the same smb.conf file (the only thing changed in the
> smb.conf were changes to its PDC so I wouldn't have 2 PDC's on the same
> subnet). All of my Nt 4.0 boxes are sp6 with all of the latest security
> patches. Whenever I try to connect to the new Samba box from my NT box I
> get:
>  \\Penguin is not accessible.
> The remote procedure call failed and did not execute.
> 
> I checked the samba logs and found no errors or complaints.
> No errors or complaints in /var/log/messages as well....
> 
> Here is the global section of my new systems (samba 2.2.1a) smb.conf:
> netbios name =  Nero
>         server string = FL1
>         encrypt passwords = yes
>         smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
>         syslog only = Yes
>         log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>         time server = Yes
>          wins support = no
>         name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast
>         max open files = 100000
>     local master = yes
>     os level = 99
>     domain master = yes
>     preferred master = yes
>         security = domain
>         password server = 192.168.0.1
>         domain master = no
>         preferred master = no
>         logon script = gerry.bat
>         logon path = \\%N\profiles\%U
>         security = user
>         workgroup = WORKGROUP
>         domain admin group = @IT
>         domain logons = Yes
>       dos filetimes = Yes
>         dos filetime resolution = Yes
>         fake directory create times = Yes
>         socket options = IPTOS_LOWDELAY TCP_NODELAY
>         deadtime = 15
>         getwd cache = Yes
>         oplocks = True
>         level2 oplocks = True
>         read raw = No
>         write cache size = 262144
>         interfaces = eth1
> 
> Here is the smb.conf in my older PDC (samba 2.05a)
> 
>   netbios name = PENGUIN
>         server string = FL02
>         encrypt passwords = Yes
>         smb passwd file = /usr/local/samba/bin/smbpasswd
>         syslog only = Yes
>         log file = /usr/local/samba/lib/samba.log.%m
>         time server = Yes
>         wins support = yes
>         name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast
>         max open files = 100000
>         logon script = gerry.bat
>         logon path = \\%N\profiles\%U
>         security = user
>         workgroup = WORKGROUP
>         domain admin group = @IT
>         domain logons = Yes
>         os level = 65
>         preferred master = yes
>         domain master = yes
>         local master = yes
>         strict locking = Yes
>         dos filetimes = Yes
>         dos filetime resolution = Yes
>         fake directory create times = Yes
> 
> I'm running out of ideas here! Please help! Thanks in advance!
> 


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