[Samba] Win2K Password Hash

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 06:50, Robert Rati wrote:
> I have a Samba 3.0 PDC using LDAP as it's password database backend, but 
> I can't get a user to log on to a Win2k machine on the domain.  In the 
> log file for the PC (on the Samba machine), I see that the user is found 
> in the LDAP backend but that getpwnam failed.  The username does not 
> exist on the Linux machine in any form.  

Samba *requires* that the username exist on the server, via nsswtich, as
a normal user.  You cannot have users in Samba which are not in
/etc/passwd or it's nsswitch'ed equivalent (nss_ldap etc).

Andrew Bartlett

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