[Samba] NT4 "at" jobs & samba

[John H Terpstra]

On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Ed Lally wrote:

> Gordon,
>
> You need to change the account used by the Scheduler service, so that it
> runs under an account known to Samba.  Otherwise, Samba won't be able to
> authenticate the Scheduler.  I believe, by default, the Scheduler runs under
> the LocalSystem account.

Agreed. This is a gotcha for new NT/2K/XP players. Caught me too.

>
> Regards,
>
> Ed
>
>
> On 10/29/2002 6:41 PM, Andrew Bartlett at abartlet at samba.org wrote:
>
> > Gordon Russell wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello:
> >>
> >> All of my "at" jobs that write to a samba share (2.2.5) balk with
> >> "access denied" errors. I have "force nt acl user = yes" on the share,
> >> but this doesnt help.  "access denied" only occurs when the batch jobs
> >> run under "at". I can run the batch files successfully at the nt cmd
> >> line.  I can only guess that nt4 "at" jobs are running as some kind of
> >> 'system' user that samba doesnt know of. Does anyone know the workaround
> >> here?
> >
> > Well your 'at' job needs to be able to authenticate to the remote SMB
> > server.  Unless you just decide to turn off security, I suggest you read
> > up on the MS website on how to do this under NT, then apply that to
> > Samba.
> >
> > Andrew Bartlett
>
>

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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org