[Samba] Downgrade from 3 to 2 suggestions

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Thu Oct 13 03:45:25 GMT 2005


On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 08:45:17PM -0700, Stephen Carville wrote:
> I upgraded to 3.0.20a (I'll get 20b as soon as it is available but I
> _really_ needed to know samba would work on this machine)
> 
> I tried my previous configuration with the usual failure.
> 
> After a bit more head scratching, sniffer traces, and poring over the
> arcane language of one of the Grand Grimoires (_Samba-3 by Example_ in
> this case), I finally stumbled across the following incantation:
> 
>  # wbinfo --set-auth-user=<Domain Admin Account>
> 
> Why this should work, I don't know but I can now get logged in from a
> W2K, XP or Linux box.

Ok, you're probably running against a W2K3 SP1 DC in "security=domain"
mode. Can you confirm that ? There are some changes in SP1 that cause
schannel connections to become the anonymous user which prohibits lookups
on some of the pipes. Setting the auth user in winbindd fixes that issue.

Jeremy.


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