Username password not recognized

[MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1)]

Hi Fred,
That's odd about smbpasswd -a  NOT prompting for a password.
Two things:
1. when you are doing all of this, make sure you are logged in as root, not
just 'su'ed to root.
2. when you join the domain from your win2k client, you need to do so as
root ,so you will also have to add root with an appropriate password to your
smbpasswd file.
3. make sure that the smbpasswd file you are checking to verify the
existence of your root and joeblow user is the smbpasswd file that samba is
using:  run testparm and see where it puts it...
 
Hope this helps,
Don

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred G Guiliano [mailto:bassist1965 at home.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 12:36 PM
To: samba at lists.samba.org
Subject: Username password not recognized


 
 
Can anyone help? I'm trying to setup Samba as a PDC. I'm running Samba
2.2.2. I have a Win98 box and a W2K laptop w/SP2. On the win98 box, if I go
to network neighborhood and do a browse, I do not see the samba box. When I
do smbclient -L "servername", it gives me a list of all the pc's that the
samba server can see. It can see both my win98 and w2k box. If I do a net
use d: \\ <file://\\machine>  machine name\sharename$ on the win98 box, it
tells me the password is incorrect. On the w2k pc, if I browse network
neighborhood, I can see the samba box. If I click on the samba pc, it opens
up and I can see the shares that I've created. When I try to join the domain
on the w2k pc, the username and password box to join the domain appears. I
enter my linux username and password (I've also tried root) and it does not
recognize it. I've done the following so far:
 
root# /usr/sbin/useradd -g 100 -d /dev/null -c "machine nickname" -s
/bin/false machine_name$ 

root# passwd -l machine_name$

root# smbpasswd -a -m machine_name

 

To add a user, I've been following this format:

adduser -g users -c 'Joe Blow' -s /bin/false -n joeblow

smbpasswd -a joeblow

After doing the above, the howto's tell me that I should be prompted for a
password for joeblow but it never does. 

Am I missing something?

- Fred

 

 

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