[Samba] "NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE"

Donald Musser dmjmusser at gmail.com
Mon Dec 19 14:52:53 GMT 2005


I've tried that already. All I get is an error about being unable to open
passwd.tbd. I've checked the file and, although it exists, it is empty. Is
this supposed to be the case?

-Myles

On 12/17/05, Mathew D. Watson <matw at eclipse-optics.com> wrote:
>
> Donald Musser wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I'm using the online HOWTO manual in the "Quick Start" reference to try
> and
> > get a basic domain controller going. So I set up smb.conf, and testparm
> > checked out okay, I've started nmbd and smbd, but when I try to to run
> >
> > [root at localhost samba]#smbclient -L <username> -U<username>%<password>
> > session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE <-- I get this error
> >
>
> I recently got this message, and the solution in my case was to run (as
> root):
>
> # smbpasswd -a <username>
>
> where <username> is a valid user account on the samba server.
>
> Mat
>
>


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