[Samba] WinNT4WS problems... PLEASE HELP, URGENT

[John H Terpstra]

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Raj Saxena wrote:

> John,
>      Are you running samba as a pdc ?
Yes,

>      Can you connect via a win2k box?

Yes.

>      are you passing clear text passwords over ?

No.

> on nt4 if i am correct after sp2 it locked down the passwords going out
> in plain text. There was a registy hack so that if you were to
> authenticate against a samba server it would not work. If you fixed it
> to do plain text passwords it would then pass it through.

Do not use plain text passwords. Microsoft have not maintained it. A
client will disconnect sessions that are idle. Since the client caches
only the encrypted password it will not be able to restore broken (idled
out) connections if plain text passwords are used.

> Please tell us what version of samba are you running and are you running it
> as a pdc and your version of samba and service pack on your nt4 box.

Samba-2.2.2 upwards works fine with any Win2K. Samba-2.2.7a upwards works
fine with any WinXP Pro. The only thing you need to do is turn off sign
and seal support on the client. There is a registry patch for that in the
samba sources in ~samba/docs/Registry/Win/WinXP_SignOrSeal.reg.

- John T.

>
>
> Raj
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-bounces+rajan=ipisland.com at lists.samba.org
> [mailto:samba-bounces+rajan=ipisland.com at lists.samba.org]On Behalf Of
> John H Terpstra
> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 5:45 PM
> To: gurban at shaw.ca
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] WinNT4WS problems... PLEASE HELP, URGENT
>
>
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 gurban at shaw.ca wrote:
>
> > I've reached the point where I'm bashing my head
> > against a brick wall here.  I'm trying to get my
> > windows nt4ws clients to authenticate to my samba
> > server on linux redhat 7.1 and I keep getting the
> > error message:
> >
> > the domain controller for the domain TREBASV.COM is
> > not currently available.
>
> Suggest you change your domain name to "trebasv", ie: in smb.conf
> [globals]:
> 	workgroup = trebasv
>
> A '.' can do bad things!
>
> > Attached is my smb.conf output from testparms
>
> Please email it to me direct at jht at samba.org.
> Do not send attachments to the samba list - they get stripped out.
>
> PS: Please send me only the output from:
> 	testparms -x
>
> >
> > All of my paths on my filesystem are the same as the
> > paths in the smb.conf
> >
> > I want users to be able to have the same home
> > directories as their unix homes... in my case
> > /u2/home/%u
>
>
> - John T.
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> John H Terpstra
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