Authenication Problems (2.0.3)

[John E. Malmberg]

"THOMAS, JEFFREY W." <jeff.thomas at peninsula.organization>
 >
 > I'm new to Samba, and have successfully have 2.2.3a running on a
 > couple of Unix boxes using DOMAIN security, but I'm having trouble
 > finding information on how to do this on VMS.  I have installed
 > 2.0.3 on my DEC4100 here, but I am having authorization problems to
 > a share on this box.  Is true to say that DOMAIN security wasn't
 > supported until 2.2?  I've also tried SHARE and USER with no
 > success.

I really do not know what the capabilities are with 2.0.3.  I know that
the SMBD program does not support encrypted passwords.  I do not know
about domain pass through or DOMAIN security.

Samba 2.0.6 for OpenVMS is meant to be feature and bug compatable with
the UNIX 2.0.6 version, but not all code paths were excersized in it's
testing.

The last time I tried, I could get SAMBA 2.2.x to build, but it will not
run for some known and unknown reasons.  Known reasons include an
increased reliance on the fork()ing child processes.

 > I can run SMBCLIENT to access one of our NT server's shares,
 > although I do have to specify a password.  The server running Samba
 > doesn't show up in My Network Places either.   If I enter
 > \\dollar\download <\\dollar\download>  I get an "Enter Network
 > Password" box, prompting for "Connect As:" and a password.  I tried
 > entering my VMS username and password, but I get "Incorrect password
 > or unknown username".

I am not sure about this one, but check that your guest account is
working on your SMBD server.

This is covered in the SAMBA-VMS FAQ.

 > What values are available for "SECURITY =" in this version? What
 > database is used to authenticate users against?  SYSUAF.DAT? Can I
 > get this version to authenticate against a NT domain?

I do not know if this works in any version of SAMBA for OpenVMS.

I did not have a working domain controller to test against.

-John
wb8tyw at qsl.network
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