[Samba] attempting login with hostname not username

Andrew Bartlett abartlet at samba.org
Fri Dec 5 23:13:20 GMT 2003


On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 02:43:30PM -0800, Brian Spiegel wrote:
> Hi.  I'm running a RH 9 machine with Samba 3.0.0 as a domain member of a
> Win2003 ADS domain.  I've setup samba w/ winbind and added a test share on
> the Linux box.
>  
> I can see and access Windows shares from my Linux box, but I cannot access
> the Linux share from a Win2k machine.  I can see the Linux machine and the
> just fine when browsing the network, but when I attempt to access the share
> I get the following error:
>  
> --
> \\linuxhost\Share <file:///\\linuxhost\Share>  is not accessible.
>  
> The network name could not be found
> --
>  
> Taking a look at the log file for smbd reveals:
>  
> [2003/12/05 14:32:03, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_spnego_kerberos(218)
>   Username winhost$ is invalid on this system
> [2003/12/05 14:32:03, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_spnego_kerberos(218)
>   Username winhost$ is invalid on this system
> [2003/12/05 14:32:03, 0] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(670)
>   '/home/username/samba_setup' does not exist or is not a directory, when
> connec
> ting to [Samba]
>  
>  
> And the log file for winbind:
>  
> [2003/12/05 14:25:23, 1] nsswitch/winbindd_user.c:winbindd_getpwnam(147)
>   user 'winhost$' does not exist
>  
>  
> Now, winhost is the name of my Win2k server that I'm trying to access the
> Linux share from.  It is not a username on the system.  My question is, why
> is there a '$' concatenated to it?  Does anyone have an idea why it won't
> connect?

Known issuse - you are operating as 'LocalSystem' on the win2k box.

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=722

Andrew Bartlettt


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