Samba 2.2 login thread

[James W. Beauchamp]

Phil:
Thanks for the reply.  I hope you are enjoying your leave and that you are
doing it someplace nice like in the Greek Islands or some other similarly
sunny place!

I have successfully logged in from a Win2K computer that I had previously
joined the domain with!  :))  This makes no sense, but here is what I did:

To recap, I had successfully joined the domain with a win2K pro workstation
into a samba CVS (2.2.x branch) domain setup running on RedHat 7.1 machine.
But when I tried to login to the domain I would get the error message you
were getting.  Here is what I did just for the hell of it and it worked:

1) go to start-settings-control panel - system properties
2) click on the network identification tab.
3) select network id to invoke the wizard
4) follow the various prompts requiring you to give an administrator
password on the domain controller, etc....  the system then sat there for
about 2 to 3 minutes before it finally finished telling me that the process
was successfull (I forget the exact words), anyway it didn't fail.
5) I then logged off, select domain login instead of local login, and was
successfully logged into the domain.

After this process I went and reviewed the various files on the SAMBA server
and noted no changes in them at all.  /etc/passwd was unchanged,
/usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd was unchanged.  I couldn't see that
anything was different except that I allowed the windoze machine to do the
process by itself .  I already had the machine accounts set up before hand
(as I believe you did to).

Anyway - let me know if this works for you.

HTH
James

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Phil Chambers" <P.A.Chambers at exeter.ac.uk>
To: "James W. Beauchamp" <jbeauchamp at gesinc.com>
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 8:12 AM
Subject: Re: Samba 2.2 login thread


> > Phil:
> > I hope you don't mind me emailing you directly, but you have exactly the
> > same SAMBA win2K login problem I am having and I have been unable to
solve
> > it or find the solution given on the mailing lists.  Have you solved
your
> > issue?  If so, can you please tell me what magic wand you might have
waved??
> > ;)
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > James
>
> Sorry for the delay in replying, but I am on leave at the moment.  I have
not yet
> succeeded!  By using root I managed to get the W2k machine to join the
domain and
> W2k.  However when I try a user login W2k claims that it (the PC) is not
known to
> the Samba server.  My latest situation is that I have used sniffer
software to
> monitor the exchanges between the W2k PC and Samba and that is confusing?
I will do
> some more work when I get back.  So far I have not found the samba mailing
list much
> help!  If you manage to find a solution I would be very pleased to hear
about it.
>
> Happy new year,
>
> Phil.
> ---------------------------------------
> Phil Chambers (postmaster at exeter.ac.uk)
> University of Exeter
>
>