guest account now has to be added to passdb ?

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Feb 10 14:30:51 GMT 2006


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Volker Lendecke wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 02:56:03PM -0600, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
>> In the current SAMBA_3_0, apparently unless the guest account
>> exists in the passdb backend, smbd refuses to start.
>> This is definitely a change since previous version would
>> create the guest structure automatically.  I don't see any
>> good reason to change the behavior.
> 
> I'll look at it tomorrow. 9 hours train and 7 hours @ a
> customer today is enough...

See my followup mails.  I know what the problem is and am working
on a fix.

> BTW, the password change issue is more severe. NT4 and
> w2ksp2 can't establish ntlm1 binds against 3.0.21b. W2ksp4
> is fine, it uses different calls to change passwords.
> 
> What's interesting: samba4 smbtorture with an ntlm1 bind
> works fine against 3.0.21b and w2k3, but fails against nt4.
> That might be the same issue.

Sounds like this will require a 3.0.21c once we get things
sorted out.  Do you agree ?




cheers, jerry
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