Samba 2.2/Windows 2000

Daniel ANDRE dandre at iris-tech.fr
Fri May 4 15:10:23 GMT 2001


David Gee a écrit :

> ok, I'm sure this is a common problem, but I've tried running through the
> archives and haven't had any luck. We recently added a few Win2k boxes to
> our network, and I'm having trouble connecting them to a Linux machine
> running Samba. I thought it was because we were running an older version of
> Samba, so I upgraded to 2.2.0, but haven't had any luck. here's the deal:
>
> We're not using encrypted passwords, and have applied the plaintext password
> reg patch to all the nt/9x boxes that need to access the linux box.

>
>
> I found a Win2k specific plaintext password reg patch on the samba-tng site,
> and have applied that to the Win2k machine.
>
> We're using NIS to distribute usernames/passwords, so the smbpasswd file is
> empty.
>
> When I try to connect from Win2k, I get this error:
>
> //xxx is not accessable. The remote procedure call failed and did not
> execute.
>
> When I look in my samba logs for this machine, I get this
>
> [2001/05/04 09:07:59, 0] smbd/password.c:update_smbpassword_file(322)
>   getsmbpwnam returned NULL
>
> I know Win2k uses Kerberos authentication and stuff like that, is this
> what's causing the problem? I've been trying to get this to work for the
> past two days with no luck. I have an experimental version of samba-tng
> running on another linux box, using encrypted passwords, and win2k connects

Have you tried encrypted password with samba 2.2? I think it is mandatory for
win2k logon


>
> to it without any problems at all. i'd switch over to tng for everything if
> it didn't involve implementing LDAP...
>
> david
>

Daniel






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