Subject: [Samba] Users suddenly can't log in!!!

[David Mulcahy]

Hello Morgan

Have you manually edited the samba passwd file at any time.  I opened it 
using a text editor and although i hadnt changed anything I did save the 
passwd file and from that point on the last user on the list and any new 
users could not logon.  In the end i created a new passwd file from scratch 
and all worked again.

HTH
David 

Message: 11
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 21:13:34 -0600
From: Morgan Toal <morgan_toal at yahoo.com>
To: samba at lists.samba.or

Hi there,

I have a problem at our branch office. We have users on Win98 
workstations who are suddenly unable to log in under their previously 
working accounts.

The account will not log in on their workstation.
The account will not log in on any other workstations.
Ohter accounts do work on the problem-user's workstation.

The username and password for the account are valid; I can ssh to the 
samba server and log in successfully via telnet and smbclient to 127.0.0.1.

I did restart samba.

I created a new account for the user. I did verify smbpasswd contained a 
correct entry. New accounts will not log in either!!!

I have a local caching DNS with a reverse zone set up, I have all the 
relevant IP's and hostnames in /etc/hosts too.

When logging in, the user sees the "black box" of the MS-DOS prompt 
appear, but it quickly disappears, no messages (i.e. output of net use 
commands) appear. Apparently, and I have verified this through the logs, 
and through smbstatus, the user is in fact connecting to 
//server/netlogon. However, logon.bat never executes,  no drives are mapped.

Attempts to manually map drives are met with "user not logged in".
The user CAN browse in network neighborhood, but our applications 
unfortunately require drive mappings.

Of course, they can use another account and it works just fine, but this 
is not really acceptable down the road.

Can anyone give me some clues as to what to look for at this point?
I'm going crazy! :) Thanks!!!