[Samba] Authentication problems Still

[Andrew Bartlett]

Con Harte wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I've tried everything I can think of, and spent many many
> hours trying to get this Sun Solaris 8 machine to authenticate
> with a Linux 7.1 machine acting as the PDC.
> 
> In summary:
> Both machines are running 2.2.3a compiled from source
> without additional arguments (just ran configure on each platform)
> No problems with Win95, Win98, WinNT authenticating with the Linux
> PDC.
> The Sun machine can attach to any other machine in the network,
> no other machine on the network can attach to the Sun one, as it
> invariably fails on obtaining authentication with the PDC.
> 
> A couple of the messages in the logs are as follows.
> connect_to_domain_password_server: unable to setup the PDC credentials
> to machine GFMNET01. Error was : SUCCESS - 0.
> tdb((NULL)): tdb_open_ex: could not open file
> /usr/local/samba/var/locks/unexpected.tdb: No such file or directory

Have you started nmbd?  It creates this file and fills it with
'unexpected' packets to work around win9x bugs.

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Andrew Bartlett                                 abartlet at pcug.org.au
Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team  abartlet at samba.org
Student Network Administrator, Hawker College   abartlet at hawkerc.net
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