I could use some help here... Re: [Samba] Accessing printer from outside the domain

lloyd subscr002 at twilight-systems.com
Thu May 29 17:36:41 GMT 2003


I'm doing my best to advocate F/OSS in our organization, but this has 
been a problem for over a week now and it's starting to look bad.

Any takers?


lloyd wrote:
> 
> We need to give a user in another domain access to our printer:
> 
> 
> our domain: OURDOM  (samba)
> 
> other domain: OTHERDOM (AD?)
> 
> user's workstation: \\OTHERDOM\WKSTN, in other domain
> 
> printer: in our domain
> 
> user: JOEBLOW - an account in each domain with the same login/password
> 
> 
> We're getting this error in wkstn.log:
> 
> [2003/05/28 20:44:20, 1] smbd/password.c:server_validate(1101)
>   password server  is not connected
> [2003/05/28 20:44:20, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(545)
>   Couldn't find user 'joeblow' in passdb.
> [2003/05/28 20:44:20, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(975)
>   NT Password did not match for user 'joeblow'!
> [2003/05/28 20:44:20, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(985)
>   Defaulting to Lanman password for joeblow
> [2003/05/28 20:44:20, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(545)
>   Couldn't find user 'joeblow' in passdb.
> [2003/05/28 20:44:20, 1] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(1001)
>   Rejecting user 'joeblow': authentication failed
> [2003/05/28 20:44:20, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(94)
>   error string = No such file or directory
> [2003/05/28 20:44:20, 3] smbd/error.c:error_packet(113)
>   error packet at smbd/reply.c(1003) cmd=115 (SMBsesssetupX) 
> NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
> 
> 
> 
> Our password server (samba pdc) is ourdc.ourorg.org and has smbpasswd 
> accounts on it.  The print server has no user accounts on it, smbpasswd 
> or passwd.
> 
> The guest account "sambaguest" exists in smbpasswd and passwd both on 
> the print server and password server, with the same password in all files.
> 
> 
> this smb.conf is from the print server:
> 
> [global]
>    debuglevel = 3
>    workgroup = OURDOMAIN
>    server string = samba print server
>    printcap name = /etc/printcap
>    load printers = yes
>    printing = cups
>    guest account = sambaguest
>    log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>    max log size = 0
>    security = server
>    password server = ourdc.ourorg.org
>    encrypt passwords = yes
>    smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
>    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
>    obey pam restrictions = yes
>    socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
>    domain master = no
>    preferred master = no
>    wins server = 123.123.123.123
>    dns proxy = no
> 
> [printers]
>    comment = All Printers
>    path = /var/spool/samba
>    browseable = no
>    public = yes
>    guest ok = yes
>    writable = no
>    printable = yes
> 
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated.
> 





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