[Samba] NT4 domain: users not found

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Kristian Rink wrote:
| Hi all;
|
| ... trying to get a samba setup running atop debian gnu/linux, I am
| stuck in a strange situation: I set up the samba box to be part of a
| Windows NT 4 domain, did a net join (which obviously worked, at
| least a computer account on the PDC was created) and configured the
| machine to see the domain user accounts (wbinfo -u and wbinfo -g
| are working, same as there are domain users listed while doing
| "getent passwd").
|
| Anyhow, accessing the machine using smbclient or the windows network
| neighborhood constantly fails like this:
|
|
| [2004/08/31 16:01:39, 5] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(271)
|   check_ntlm_password: winbind authentication for user
| [administrator] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER
| [2004/08/31 16:01:39, 2] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(312)
|   check_ntlm_password:  Authentication for user [administrator] ->
| [administrator] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER


If this is Samba 3.0.6, then it is a known bug. The patch is at
http://samba.org/~jerry/patches/post-3.0.6/winbind_getpwnam_v1.patch




cheers, jerry
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