Password server option necessary?

[Nimish Philip]

Hello

My security setting is server i.e security = server
Is it then necessary/mandatory  to have an explicit password server =
<whatever> declaration?

Can't the server running samba act as the password server?

The setup is samba 2.0.7 on Solaris 2.5.1 and i'm trying to login and
map drives from a Win2k Server machine.

This is a snip of my log file...

[2001/01/30 09:14:55, 1] smbd/files.c:file_init(216)
  file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 1014 are
available.
[2001/01/30 09:15:37, 0] smbd/password.c:server_cryptkey(1025)
  password server not available
[2001/01/30 09:15:37, 1] smbd/password.c:server_validate(1069)
  password server  is not connected
[2001/01/30 09:15:37, 1] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(925)
  Rejecting user 'nimish': authentication failed


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