[Samba] samba 2.2.8 and win2k/tse

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 22:44, patrick foure wrote:
> Summary:
> We cannot connect multiple users from an win2K/tse box to a samba server 
> using password server authentication .
> 
> Details:
> We have samba 2.2.8a on Sun Solaris , connected with an w2k/tse .
> Samba has been configured to check user/password using an "password 
> server" on the network ( Domain PDC ) .
> When the first user connect to the win2k/tse all network shares are ok .
> But when other users connect on win2k/tse , authentication are refused 
> ,  samba says : password server rejected the  password .
> Nothing seem to be exchange between samba and PDC .
> If we put login/password in the /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd file 
> coonection can be made , network shares are OK .
> 
> Does we need to configure something " special " for win2K/tse samba 
> clients ?

Make sure you use security=domain or security=ads.  security=server is
not reliable, particularly for TSE connections.

An upgrade to Samba 3.0 might also help, particularly if you cannot move
away from 'security=server'.

Andrew Bartlett

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