NT service problem (PR#19365)

Jeremy Allison jallison at cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Mon Aug 2 17:25:46 GMT 1999


davidl at cn.ca wrote:

>   A "service" on an NT 4 server cannot connect to a samba
>   share on my linux machine. The specific versions are given
>   below. From the NT machine I have no problem as the administrator
>   to login to samba server and view the target share. The
>   supplier's service however cannot seem to do the same. The
>   service does have a config for a user/password but as it gives
>   no verbose error message I am stuck. Also the supplier(Bentley)
>   is about as useful as the IRS - in their opinion I should be
>   using NT and that's the end of the story. I disagree :)
>   The service starts automatically at boot time but even if I
>   stop and then restart it after I have logged into the share
>   I have no luck.
> 
>   Does anyone have any ideas ? From what I have gleamed from the
>   John Blair book I have setup share level authentication. I have
>   also applied the patch to NT to use plaintext passwords.

Don't use share level auth. Use user auth with encrypted
passwords and add a username/password logon to the Linux
box that matches the username/password of the service.

This does work with Samba and has for about 4 years or
so (as I did the original work to fix this when I was
making the Vantive service on NT use a Samba drive so
I could get at the log files I needed :-). It's just
a matter of configuring it correctly. Use the Samba logs
if the Bently logs are no use.

Once you have this working I'd recommend you send a 
tech note to Bently explaining how to do this. Many
app vendors don't support Samba due to ignorance. If
they saw it increased the compatibility (and hence
demand :-) of their products they might get more
accommodating.

AutoDesk has been very good about doing this, and AutoCAD
now works well against a Samba server.

Regards,

	Jeremy Allison,
	Samba TEam.

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