Win98 can't login Samba 2.2.0 PDC. Last hope, please help

[Shekhar]

I guess u haven't added smb users yet.
If not try this
touch  /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd
/usr/sbin/adduser user1
smbpasswd -a user1
smbpasswd  user1
New SMB password: urpass
Retype new SMB password: urpass
Password changed for user user1.
Then try logging in from client machine
and
LETMEKNOWWHATHAPPENED.

Shekhar
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gatis Gailis" <gatisgailis at nilda.apollo.lv>
To: "samba-ntdom" <samba-ntdom at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 9:34 AM
Subject: Win98 can't login Samba 2.2.0 PDC. Last hope, please help


>
> Hi, I have been trying to setup Samba 2.2.0 as PDC on RedHat 7.1 for about
a
> week now, day and night, and I still can't get it to work. I have read the
> books Samba UNIX&NT Internetworking and RedHat Linux 6 Server and FAQ and
> HOWTO about Samba 2.2.x as PDC.
> So my plan is to set up a network consisting of 2 machines - Linux and
> Win98. To begin with I don't understand some things about linux server:
>
> 1. Do I need to set up a DNS server on Linux (I guess not, but still..)?
> 2. If I make Samba provide WINS service, do I need DNS?
>
> I use linuxconf to setup Host details and manual suggests to name the host
> HOST.DOMAIN, while Samba server is named in smb.conf->workgroup = DOMAIN.
So
> I have one IP address, 192.168.0.1, for the HOST. I can ping this address
> 192.168.0.1 from my win98 machine, but I cannot ping the name HOST (in
> TCP/IP properties WINS is pointed to 192.168.0.1 and NetBIOS over TCP/IP
> enabled).
>
> 3. Does it mean that WINS is not working?
>
> Ok, I make a file lmhosts with entry
> 192.168.0.1    HOST
> and now I can ping HOST. What I don't understand is where is the domain
> server (e.g. what would be the entry in lmhosts), because I cannot ping
name
> DOMAIN. I see a workgroup icon in Network Neiborhood named DOMAIN, but I
> cannot enter it, just says "Servers in this wkgroup not available"; and if
I
> tell win98 to join DOMAIN, it thinks for a while and then spits "There are
> no servers to verify your name/password". Ok, maybe the problem is with
> Samba configuration. Here is my smb.conf:
>
> [global]
> unix password sync = yes
> server string = Samba
> workgroup = domain
> encrypt passwords = yes
> passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd
> smb passwd file = /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd
> security = user
> status = yes
> map to guest = never
> password level = 4
> null passwords = no
> OS level = 65
> preferred master = yes
> domain master = yes
> domain logons = yes
> # Next is from HOWTO
> add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser -n -g machines -c Win98Machine -d
> /dev/null -s /bin/false %m$
> logon script = scripts\%U.bat
> domain admin group = @Win2Kadm
> guest account = ftp
> dead time = 0
> load printers = yes
> allow hosts = 192.168.0.
> wins support = yes
> netbios name = host
>
> [printers]
> available = no
> printable = yes
> browseable = no
> public = no
> path = /var/spool/samba
> guest ok = no
>
> [homes]
> available = yes
> guest ok = no
> read only = no
> create mask = 0700
> directory mask = 0700
> locking = no
>
> [netlogon]
> path = /usr/local/samba/netlogon
> writeable = no
> guest ok = no
>
>
> Besides, here is my /etc/sysconfig/network:
> networking=yes
> hostname="host.domain"
> # Do I really need gateway now? I understand that I would need it in case
I
> have another network connected, e.g. Internet
> gateway="192.168.0.254"
> gatewaydev="eth0"
> forward_ipv4="no"
>
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:
> device="eth0"
> bootproto="none"
> ipaddr="192.168.0.1"
> netmask="255.255.255.0"
> onboot="yes"
>
> I have set up users and machines in passwd, and made a
> /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd.
> Another thing I tried to do is smbclient -L host -U root, but it always
said
> "BADSERV or BADPASSWD.....". I guess it was just because I entered
> not-encrypted password, but SAMBA is set to use encrypted passwords.
>
> If you have any idea what's wrong with all this, please healp me out as I
am
> sleeping only some 3 hours a day and won't have peace untils it gets
> working.
>
> Gatis
>
>