[Samba] Login denied after joinined Samba PDC

[John H Terpstra]

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Eric Halverson wrote:

> Currently running samba 2.2.7 on rh8
>
> I have not had any problems until recently, and I'm not sure exactly
> what would have caused this problem.  I have no problem joining a w2k
> workstation to my domain, but whenever I attempt to log into the domain,
> i receive the following error on the workstation:
>
> The system cannot log you on to this domain because the system's
> computer account in its primary domain is missing or the password on
> that account is incorrect
>
> as well as this from my /var/log/samba/machinename.log
>
> [2003/03/24 12:32:51, 0] smbd/password.c:authorise_login(863)
>   authorise_login: rejected invalid user nobody

Have you added smb passwords for each of your users?

ie: smbpasswd -a 'username'

- John T.

>
> every time I try to log in with a valid user name.  If i try an invalid
> username, nothing shows up in the log file. It seems that my users are
> all being mapped to the guest user nobody.  Here is my global section of
> smb.conf
>
> [global]
>         ;Basic Server Settings
>         netbios name = PDC
>         workgroup = SMBDOMAIN
>
>         ;Act as domain and local master browser
>         os level = 64
>         preferred master = yes
>         domain master = yes
>         local master = yes
>
>         ;Provide a WINS service
>         wins support = yes
>
>         ;Security settings
>         security = user
>
>         ;Encrypted passwords required for PDC
>         encrypt passwords = yes
>
>         ;support domain logons
>         domain logons = yes
>         domain admin group = root @is
>         admin users = root @is
>
>         ;Profile location
>         logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U
>
>         ;User home directory and mount drive
>         logon drive = H:
>         logon home = \\%L\%u
>
>         ;specify the logon script located in the netlogon share
>         logon script = "wkix32 logongui.k2k"
>
>         ;automagically add machine accounts
>         add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -c Machine -d /dev/null -g
> 500 -s /bin/false -M %u
>
>         ;Log location and size
>
>         log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>         max log size = 1000
>
>         ;sync unix/samba passwords
>         unix password sync = Yes
>         passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>         passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n
> *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
>         pam password change = yes
>
>         ;performance options
>         socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>
>         ;use both NICs
>         interfaces = 192.168.1.5/24 192.168.1.6/24
>
>         ;default share values
>         create mode = 0770
>         directory mode = 0770
>         valid users = @is root
>         writelist = @is root
>
> Thanks for any help in advance.
>
>
>

-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org