Request with Tech support

[P. Anand Rao]

Hi,

We are having a few problems with establishing SAMBA Security measures 
on Windows NT 4.0. We would really appreciate it if you could help us on 
this matter.

I had recently downloaded SAMBA version 1.9.18p10 for Solaris 7 ( Intel 
Edition) and it works fine with public access shares.

Our setup goes like this.... WIN NT 4.0 workstations are on a LAN, users 
are authenticated to a Novel 4.0 server which in-turn authenticates to 
our Windows NT 4.0 PDC.

Recently I had to implement security measures.. so that Windows NT 4.0 
workstation clients with SP 3.0 (some with SP 4.0) can see the shares on 
their Network Neighbourhood.. but will need to enter a username and 
password if they need to access any of them. Users need to enter their 
existing usernames and passwords, which they are already using for 
Windows Logon.

Now... to use this feature... I had set the releveant paramters in the 
smb.conf to the following values.

WORKGROUP = < DOMAIN NAME >

SECURITY = SERVER 				

PASSWORD SERVER =  < MY PDC SERVER >   < OTHER SERVER >   < ANOTHER 
SERVER >

WINS SERVER = 10.10.10.10

NAME RESOLVE ORDER = HOSTS WINS

SHARE MODES = YES

As I have mentioned earlier... if I use SECURITY = SHARE  and comment 
the PASSWORD SERVER and other parameters... things work fine... I can 
access all the shares...just like a simple public share with no security 
at all.

But with these paramter set.. as mentioned above... I can see the share 
on the Windows PC.. but cannot access any of the shares.... even public 
ones !! If I double-click on the share names...Windows asks for a 
username and password... and it does not accept the Windows 
Identification.... nor the root password of the Samba server ( running 
on Solaris)... nor any identification.

Note : All my Windows PCs network properties are set to login to the 
domain... as in my WORKGROUP parameter.

If I enter the Root password... Windows gives me an error... saying " 
Credentials supplied conflict with existing credentials"

If I enter the Windows Logon name and password.... the error is " 
Incorrect username and password"


The log files say.. that      "< MY PDC SERVER > rejected the session"

Could you please let us know... what is wrong..or where we are going 
wrong. ?? 

Moreover.. if I try to run the "addtosmbpass" script in the /bin 
directory.. to add users to the smbpasswd file.... it does not work. AWK 
gives me errors in 3-4 lines. Is there is a site where I can get the 
corrected version of the file or has it got something to do with AWK 
version on Solaris 7.

I do not want to create a SMBPASSWD file....and also... the 
documentation says I don't need to... if I am using ENCRYPTED 
PASSWORDS.. and WINDOWS NT 4.0 with SP 3.0 automates to ENCRYPTION..

The point is that... do I need to say in the smb.conf that ENCRYPT 
PASSWORDS = TRUE... ???

Kindly do reply at the earliest...

Thanking you very much in advance and best regards
anand

P. Anand Rao
Ph   : +61 2 9425 8924 (O)   
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