[Samba] NT MD4 password check failed

[Vincente Aggrippino]

On 11/17/05, Andrew Bartlett <abartlet at samba.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 13:11 +0800, Vincente Aggrippino wrote:
> > I'm sorry for asking a question which has been asked so many times
> > before, but I can't seem to find the answer...
> >
> > How do I get to access my home directory on a Linux server running
> > Samba from a Windows XP client?
> >
> > I'm getting "NT MD4 password check failed" in the log file even though
> > the Windows client is listed in hosts.equiv.  More information
> > below...
>
> > Neither of our accounts on the Windows XP clients have passwords.  We
> > just use the Welcome screen and click on our names.  So, I have added
> > the host names to /etc/hosts.equiv and added hosts equiv =
> > /etc/hosts.equiv to smb.conf so that, when the client tries to connect
> > to the server it shouldn't need to provide a password to go with the
> > username.  This is the part that doesn't seem to be working:
>
> hosts.equiv isn't really supported in Samba3.  I removed the main option
> in the smb.conf, and hid the functionality in an auth module that nobody
> used (I know, because nobody reported the segfault bug in it...).
>
> > [2005/11/17 11:37:29, 9] passdb/passdb.c:pdb_update_autolock_flag(2333)
> >   pdb_update_autolock_flag: Account vince not autolocked, no check needed
> > [2005/11/17 11:37:29, 4] libsmb/ntlm_check.c:ntlm_password_check(326)
> >   ntlm_password_check: Checking NT MD4 password
> > [2005/11/17 11:37:29, 3] libsmb/ntlm_check.c:ntlm_password_check(344)
> >   ntlm_password_check: NT MD4 password check failed for user vince
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know the solution to this problem?
>
> Seting a null password on the accounts should do what you want.
That did the trick :)

I guess it's kind of insecure, but it's a closed network in my home. 
So, all is well.  It didn't occur to me that I could set a null
password, but I guess root can do all kinds of things that I'm not
supposed to do.

>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
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> Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
> Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
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>
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In trying to figure this out, I saw the question asked many times, but
I never found the answer.  So, for the record, here's what I needed to
do per Andrew's recommendation...

vince at home:~> su -
Password:
home:~ # passwd vince
Changing password for vince.
New Password: <just press enter>
Bad password: too short
Reenter New Password: <just press enter again>
Password changed.
home:~ # smbpasswd vince
New SMB password: <just press enter>
Retype new SMB password: <just press enter again>


Thank you very much :)

-- Vince