[Samba] Samba PDC: Windows 9x clients cannot share

[Bruce Ferrell]

I've seen this happen when the smbpasswd file and /etc/passwd weren't in
sync.  For whatever reason, samba doesn't like it and errors out when
the clients try to get lists.


Juhan Kundla wrote:
> 
> Hei!
> 
> After countless frustrating hours of reading manpages, searching google
> and staring at my smb.conf i have given up and now spamming this mailing
> list with stupid questions.
> 
> I have a Samba PDC and several Windows 9x clients. Those Windows boxes
> use user level access control and the Samba server handles the
> authentication of users. Everything works fine besides one thing --
> those windows clients cannot share anything. For example, when i try to
> share the c: drive on one of those Windows boxes, i get the following
> error, when trying to add users to the access control list of that share:
> 
> you cannot view the list of users at this time. please try again later.
> 
> Clearly, the windows machine cannot get the list of users/groups from
> Samba PDC and i don't have a clue, why this is so.
> 
> My Samba server has the following configuration:
> 
> juhan at galadriel:~$ /usr/sbin/smbd -V
> Version 2.2.3a-6 for Debian
> juhan at galadriel:~$ uname -a
> Linux galadriel 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Sam Mär 30 00:56:06 CET 2002 i586 unknown
> 
> The global section of my smb.conf
> 
> [global]
>   netbios name = GALADRIEL
>   workgroup = ARNOR
>   server string = Samba server %v (%h)
>   log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>   max log size = 1000
>   syslog = 0
>   os level = 255
>   local master = yes
>   preferred master = yes
>   domain master = yes
>   security = user
>   encrypt passwords = yes
>   invalid users = root
>   smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
>   domain logons = yes
>   logon home = \\galadriel\%U
>   logon script = %U.bat
>   wins support = true
>   name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast
>   dns proxy = no
>   unix password sync = yes
>   passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>   passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n   *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .
> 
> TIA,
> Juhan
> 
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