[Samba] Win95 on a Samba3+LDAP domain on a Debian box

Kevin Brouelette kevin1a at varlog.net
Sun Jul 31 19:24:17 GMT 2005


Hello,
Just a thought...
Doesn't Win95 require 'encrypt passwords = no' and Win98 and higher require 
'yes'??
I recall from Samba 2.x that you had to choose one or the other. Maybe Samba 
3.x is different[??]
Corrections welcome.
Kevin

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "fabricio bianco abreu" <fabricio at tc.df.gov.br>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:36 AM
Subject: [Samba] Win95 on a Samba3+LDAP domain on a Debian box


> Hi folks,
>
> I have successfuly migrated a WinNT 4.0 Domain to a Debian server with
> Samba3+Ldap following the Samba-3 by Example guide from John H. Terpstra 
> (an
> impressive good guide) and The Linux Samba-OpenLADP Howto from Jerome 
> Tournier &
> Olivier Lemaire.
>
> The domain holds about 800 accounts. There are WinNT servers, WinXP and 
> Win95
> clients belonging to it.
>
> WinNT servers and WinXP clients are working fine (i.e. as expected).
>
> Nevertheless, Win95 clients are now unable to share local folders because 
> they
> cannot retrieve the user list from the domain. The following lines are 
> logged on
> the samba server:
>
> [2005/07/27 14:28:45, 0] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:ldapsam_setsampwent(1236)
>  ldapsam_setsampwent: LDAP search failed: Size limit exceeded
> [2005/07/27 14:28:45, 0] rpc_server/srv_samr_nt.c:load_sampwd_entries(342)
>  load_sampwd_entries: Unable to open passdb.
>
> That makes the question an LDAP/Samba related issue (I believe).
>
> I have browsed the list for help and found this:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=samba&m=109416402629367&w=2
>
> which did not worked for me.
>
> I do not want to bother you with boring details. As for the Debian 
> distribuition
> caveats I'd like to mention:
> 1. There is no /etc/ldap.conf file. There are /etc/pam_ldap.conf from the
> libpam-ldap package and /etc/linbss-ldap.conf from libnss-ldap package.
> 2. Slapd does not start if a statement like
> [limits dn="cn=manager,dc=tcdf,dc=net" size.soft=-1 size.hard=soft"] is 
> found in
> /etc/ldap/slapd.conf. A statement like {sizelimit unlimited} is not a show 
> stopper.
>
> Debian 3.1 (sarge)
> slapd-2.2.23-8
> samba-3.0.14a-3
> smbldap-tools-0.8.7-4
>
> The most interesting information is that it seems that Slapd is realy not
> limiting the amount of information delivered. The folowing comands work 
> flawless
> in the Debian box:
> 1. pdbedit -L
> 2. getent passwd
> 3. ldapsearch -x
>
> As for WinNT, no problems sharing folders and even User Manager for 
> domains is
> operational. As for WinXP, no problems at all when sharing folders.
>
> Would anyone help me?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> ________________________________________________________________
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