[Samba] Authentication for user [] -> [] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER

[Mudassar Mian]

Good day all 
 

Newbie problem again... I’ve been setting up a samba box for a few days now and have been quite successful in most respects. I can get the win2000 machines to join the domain and I can see the password being authenticated too. I can even see the shared drives. 

 

The problem I’ve having is that after a few log on and log off I can’t seem to logon again. At the win2000 login screen I get the error message “The system could not log you on to the domain because the system’s computer account in its primary domain is missing or the password on that account is incorrect”

 

The password I’m using is correct and the machine name exists in the passwd files for both samba (machine name followed by $) and Linux. 

 

Here is a copy of the machine’s log file.

 

[2004/03/16 11:57:18, 2] smbd/sesssetup.c:setup_new_vc_session(591)

  setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close all old resources.

[2004/03/16 11:57:18, 2] smbd/sesssetup.c:setup_new_vc_session(591)

  setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close all old resources.

[2004/03/16 11:57:18, 1] auth/auth_util.c:make_server_info_sam(821)

  User pcguest in passdb, but getpwnam() fails!

[2004/03/16 11:57:18, 2] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(312)

  check_ntlm_password:  Authentication for user [] -> [] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER

[2004/03/16 11:57:29, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(558)

  Closing connections

 

I’ve been searching google  groups for ages but cant find any thing that helps.. Any help would be greatly appreciated..

 

I’m using red hat 9 and samba-3.0.2a-1 rpm





thanks Mia