win2k joining Samba 2.2.2 PDC problems.

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Phil Chambers wrote:

>
> > [2001/12/07 04:13:10, 10] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:startsmbfilepwent(168)
> >   startsmbfilepwent_internal: opening file /usr/local/private/smbpasswd
> > [2001/12/07 04:13:10, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:startsmbfilepwent(171)
> >   startsmbfilepwent_internal: unable to open file /usr/local/private/smbpasswd.
> > Error was Permission denied
> > [2001/12/07 04:13:10, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwrid(1459)
> >   unable to open passdb database.
>
> I had just reached this same position myself when trying to work out why W2k will
> not authenticate against my SAMBA PDC.  I have had several permissions problems with
> SAMBA and have had to make various directories and files world-readable.  However, I
> understand that smbpasswd needs to be tightly restricted for security concerns, so
> have not tried to solve this problem by making it world-readable.
>
> So, any help will be appreciated by at least two of us!

You need to join the domain as root (as specified in the Samba-PDC-HOWTO.




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