[Samba] Why both LMPass and NTPass: Migration Issue

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 13:41, Kang Sun wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
>         I am back to work the vampire migration issues.
>         It looks like the computers sambaNTPasswords where migrated 
> correctly but the sambaLMPasswords were not!
>         And it seems to be Windows 2000 system only uses sambaNTPasswords 
> while Windows XP systems using more than NTPassword.
>         For Windows 2000 client, any domain user can login into the system 
> without any problem.
>         With Windows XPs and I got he "Domain is not Availabe" error. 
> However, they can sign off the domain and rejoin the domain without 
> problems. 
>         Does Windows XP systems need sambaLMPassword?

No.

>         Did I narrorwed down the problem a little?

No.  There may be other issues here - I would look at issues such as the
domain sid, and machine's sid for it's machine account.  Samba does not
read the LM password.  (Except in a buggy case solved by Samba 3.0.4).

I always suggest trying with the current code, so grab current SVN and
retry.

Andrew Bartlett
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