[Samba] Urgent RHL Samba problem update

[Ilia Chipitsine]

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> We have Red Hat linux 3.0 ES.
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> We had samba set up so that it would authenticate against the linux
> password file/database. That is the set up we have had here for the past
> two years, firstly with RH linux ES 2.1 and now with RH linux ES 3.0.
> Our users have Windows XP/2000 PC's, and when they would use the net use
> command on their PC (or mount network drives via Windows Explorer) it
> would prompt them for a username and password. They would then enter the
> same username and password that they would use to login to the linux
> server. When their linux password aged every 3 months and forced them to
> create a new password, they would then have to use that new password to
> mount the network drive. All this was done with no entries for the users
> in the smbpasswd file. Plain text password is enabled in the registry
> settings on the PC's.

plain passwords are bad idea nowdays. you won't be able to do many things 
like domain support, for instance.

use openldap + smbk5pwd + "sync pam password", You'll keep both linux and 
samba passwords in sync.

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> I downloaded upgrades for this server from the Red Hat website and
> installed them, including samba upgrades.
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> Now users cannot mount network drives from this server onto their PC's.
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> I upgraded to samba-3.0.9-1.3E.3 and users are now getting "system error
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> 1326 has occurred - logon failure unknown username or password".
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> The previous version of samba on this server was samba-3.0.0-14.3E.
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> I found the rpms for samba-3.0.0-14.3E on a website
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> http://download.atrpms.net/mirrors/scientific/305/i386/errata/obsolete/R
> PMS/
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> I downloaded them, stopped the samba service, uninstalled
> samba-3.0.9-1.3E.3 then re-installed samba-3.0.0-14.3E and restarted the
> samba service but I am still getting the same error.
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> We changed the security setting in smb.conf to security = share but now
> when users mount network drives it does not prompt them for a username
> or password but instead mounts the network drive as user nobody.
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> Maybe there is a setting in the smb.conf file that can be changed back,
> or maybe if I restore the contents of the /etc/samba directory (or any
> other relevant directory or files) that may fix the problem.
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> Can any samba experts out there advise?
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> Paul Dudley
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> ANL IT Operations Dept.
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> pdudley at anl.com.au
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