[Samba] enabling netbios over tcp/ip...?

[Tim Potter]

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 13:25 +0100, markus wrote:
> Isn't it that netbios over tcp/ip is not needed since samba 3 anymore? I 
> thought it isn't, but I had to enable it. Otherwise my windows machines 
> are refusing (as posted) the samba shares after a while. Any explanation?

NetBIOS over TCP/IP has never been needed with Samba.  I have no idea
about the actual problem though - sorry.


Tim.

> markus schrieb:
> > System: w2003 SP1, samba 3.0.14a-r2 (even tried 3.0.20b)
> > Kernel: 2.6.12-gentoo-r4 SMP
> > Mode: ADS
> > Auth: nss_ldap, kerberos
> > 
> > The Problem: After a while the clients loosing their connection to the 
> > samba server and it's shares. After the connection is lost there is a 
> > clean cut: no further information is written to a machine log if trying 
> > to access a share on the samba server. So the problem has to be on 
> > windows side. Until the connection is gone forever the machine log has 
> > many entries like this:
> > 
> > [2005/11/07 12:53:54, 1] smbd/sesssetup.c:reply_spnego_kerberos(250)
> >   Username DOMAIN+MACHINE$ is invalid on this system
> > 
> > I know this error since I am using the combination of kerb, nss_ldap and 
> > samba as an ad member but never had problems accessing shares on sambas. 
> > Because of using nss_ldap, there is no entry for winbind in my 
> > nsswitch.conf and nss_winbind doesn't extend the machines and usernames 
> > as DOMAIN+{USER,MACHINE$}.
> > 
> > Are there any known issues related to hotfixes on windows? On w2003 it's 
> > definitely impossible browsing my samba shares, just refusing the 
> > connection without logging it anywhere. Neither under linux nor under 
> > windows, like if never happened.
> > 
> > If windows sends DOMAIN\USER (or interpreted by winbind like 
> > DOMAIN+USER), how can I tell samba to extend the users and machines the 
> > same using nss_ldap?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for any help
> >   - markus
> > 
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