password and some other problems

Dieter Rothacker Didi at Xterminator.STUDFB.UniBw-Muenchen.de
Tue Jan 13 23:38:32 GMT 1998


Hongwei Li wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have some problems (or questions) about samba and WinNT.  We have 4 Unix
...
> 1. After upgrading the samba from 1.9.16p9 to 1.9.17p4 on the Linux machine
> (kernel 2.0.30), I can not set “security=user” anymore. Users always get
> error message “Invalid password” when they try to mount network drive, even
> as root (I tried it).  Then, I try to set “security=server” and “password
> server = our NT server”, then it works!  We did not have this problem
> before, and still don’t have this problem with samba 1.9.16p9 on other 3
> machines.  Can anybody tell me why?  I saw a similar problem from several
> other posts.

As I remember, 1.9.16 did not have encrypted password support compiled
in as standard. 1.9.17 has. This means you have to insert the line
"encrypt passwords = no" into your /etc/smb.conf or (and this will solve
the following problem) read the instructions on using encrypted
passwords in "Encryption.txt" in the docs.

> 2. This is not a problem, but just a very inconvenient feature that I hope
> somebody can help me. Windows 95  and Windows 3.11 users can mount all samba
> drives automatically when they log on their windows.  However, Windows NT
> 4.0 users have to type password for EVERY DRIVE ON EACH SAMBA SERVER
> manually.  Since we have 4 Unix machines, they have to type their password 4
> times whenever they log on.  They feel very unhappy and I can not help them.
> Can somebody tell me if it is possible to “simplify the log on procedure”?

NT refuses to save passwords if they are not encrypted (it would have
to store them in an unsafe way). If you configure your samba server
to support encrypted passwords, NT will save them encrypted for future
logons.

> 3. I remember somebody mentioned “password map” between samba servers (UNIX
> machines) and Windows NT server (4.0), i.e. if a user changes his password
> on a UNIX machine, he does not have to change his password on NT server to
> the same one as on the UNIX machine.  In other words, a user can have 5
> different password on our NT server and 4 UNIX machines, and change them in
> any way he likes.  Can somebody tell me how to do this?

Without using NT as password server, the passwords for NT and samba
should naturally be independent from each other... or didn't I
understand
what you are talking about ?
-- 
Dieter Rothacker, student of computer sciences


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