[Samba] Win2k clients and PDC

[John H Terpstra]

On Fri, 3 Jan 2003, amit deshmukh wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
>       We have Samba 2.2.6(+2.2.7 security patch) installed on solaris.

Suggest you update to samba-2.2.7a. If you still have a problem email me
<jht at samba.org> with contact details and I will help you.

- John T.

> Samba is used as PDC for WinNT and Win2K clients. The WinNT machines have
> no problems geting into the domain as machine trust accounts exist in
> /etc/passwd and smbpasswd file. However, Win2k clients are not able to
> join the domain. I did go through the documentation, and hence created
> root account in 'smbpasswd' for win2k clients to join the domain. But,
> when I try to put a Win2k machine into the domain with the 'root' account,
> I get 'Logon failure: unknown usename or bad password' error on client
> side. However, with the same 'root' account, I can mount smb shares on the
> servers from Win2k clients. So, it's the PDC thing that is giving the
> problems. I did look into log files and i see following lines
>
> [2003/01/03 14:48:12, 4] smbd/password.c:smb_password_ok(475)
>   smb_password_ok: Checking SMB password for user root
> [2003/01/03 14:48:12, 5] smbd/password.c:smb_password_ok(489)
>   smb_password_ok: challenge received
> [2003/01/03 14:48:12, 4] smbd/password.c:smb_password_ok(499)
>   smb_password_ok: Checking NT MD4 password
> [2003/01/03 14:48:12, 4] smbd/password.c:smb_password_ok(504)
>   smb_password_ok: NT MD4 password check failed
> [2003/01/03 14:48:12, 4] smbd/password.c:smb_password_ok(518)
>   smb_password_ok: Checking LM password
> [2003/01/03 14:48:12, 4] smbd/password.c:smb_password_ok(523)
>   smb_password_ok: LM password check failed
> [2003/01/03 14:48:12, 2] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(575)
>   pass_check_smb failed - invalid password for user [root]
> [2003/01/03 14:48:12, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(972)
>   NT Password did not match for user 'root'!
> [2003/01/03 14:48:12, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(982)
>   Defaulting to Lanman password for root
>
> Can somebody help me with this ?
>
> thanks in advance
>
>
> rgds
> Amit
>
>
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> Amit Deshmukh
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> University of Toledo.
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org