W2K and Samba 2.07 problem

[George R.Kasica]

Any thoughts on how to get this to work??

Can someone help out with this one....or am I trying to do something
impossible??

I have a W2K box here and running SAMBA 2.2 alpha1 on LInux 2.4.0
here...I have shares set up on the linux box just fine, BUT when I try
to login to the system wit the linux box set as the PDC it get the
following errors:

Below that are several suggestions to "fix" it but so far none have
worked :(

George

>No joy there either:
>
>[root at eagle samba.d]# smbpasswd -a -m SOLO9100$
>
>getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :)
>getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :)
>Added user SOLO9100$.
>getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :)
>Password changed for user SOLO9100$.
>
>
>>Bad syntax in the smbpasswd line that was given to you.  It should read
>>
>>smbpasswd -a -m SOLO9100$
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: George R.Kasica [mailto:georgek at netwrx1.com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2001 9:43 AM
>>To: samba at samba.org
>>Subject: Re: W2K and Samba 2.07 problem
>>
>>
>>On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:41:17 +1100, you wrote:
>>
>>>why are you specifying all of those options? why not just go
>>>
>>>useradd SOLO9100$
>>>smbpasswd -am SOLO9100$
>>>
>>>and be done with it?
>>>
>>>You don't need to specify shell, group, uid, home, or rootdir - leave
>>them
>>>alone.
>>OK....here's the result of that:
>>
>>[root at eagle /etc]# useradd SOLO9100$
>>
>>[root at eagle /etc]# smbpasswd -am SOLO9100$
>>getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :)
>>getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :)
>>Added user SOLO9100$.
>>getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :)
>>Password changed for user SOLO9100$.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>Your machine name is wrong - it should be all caps, with a dollar at
>>the
>>>end. You're adding a machine called solo9100 instead of SOLO9100$ .
>>>
>>>This isn't very complicated - all you have to do is those two lines
>>above.
>>OK
>>
>>>You can't make a W2K box join a samba domain, btw. You should create a
>>user
>>>account "chris" on both the w2k box, and the samba box, with the same
>>>password. On the w2k box, you should log into the local domain
>>"mydomain"
>>>and **not** the samba box.
>>Meaning the workgroup??
>>
>>>If you look at the error message you received, your answer was sitting
>>in
>>>front of you:
>>>
>>>[root at eagle /root]# smbpasswd -am solo9100
>>>User "solo9100$" was not found in system password file.
>>>
>>>solo9100$ wasn't found because you didn't add it.
>>>
>>>FYI machine names should always be all uppercase.
>>OK.
>>
>>George

George, MR. Tibbs & The Beast Kasica
Waukesha, WI USA
georgek at netwrx1.com
http://www.netwrx1.com
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