[Samba] Migration from Samba 2.2 to Samba 3.020b

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 06:44 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 13:56 +0100, Raik Steuding wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > we migrate from Samba 2.2 to Samba 3.020b. We have the problem now,
> > that some clients can not connect to the Samba Server. In
> > the log there are messages like that:
> > 
> > [2006/02/23 08:49:20, 2] smbd/sesssetup.c:setup_new_vc_session(704)
> >   setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close all old resources.
> > [2006/02/23 08:49:20, 2] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_auth(514)
> >   smb_pam_auth: PAM: Athentication Error for user raik
> > [2006/02/23 08:49:20, 2] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_error_handler(73)
> >   smb_pam_error_handler: PAM: Authentication Failure : Authentication failure
> > [2006/02/23 08:49:20, 0] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_passcheck(810)
> >   smb_pam_passcheck: PAM: smb_pam_auth failed - Rejecting User raik !
> > [2006/02/23 08:49:20, 2] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(317)
> >   check_ntlm_password:  Authentication for user [raik] -> [raik] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_WRONG_PASSWORD
> > [2006/02/23 08:49:20, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(612)
> >   Closing connections
> > 
> > At the moment the passwords are unencrypted, but we will switch to
> > encrypted passwords with the 'update encrypted' option. We have this
> > problem with different client systems (98, XP, ...).
> > 
> > On "identical" systems the login into the Samba-Server goes without problems
> > (and the same username).
> > At the moment we need the unencrypted passwords, because we have here many
> > users and the migration from unencrypted passwords to encrypted
> > passwords goes not so easy (as the samba experts also know for
> > certain).
> > 
> > Can somebody help me, this one I am a bit helpless at the moment.
> > I think the problem is the authentication of the wrong working
> > clients. the question is why is the authentication wrong and how I can
> > change this.
> > 
> > I am grateful for every help.
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> by default, samba 3 uses encrypted passwords and you would have to
> explicitly turn it off...
> 
> encrypted passwords = yes
> 
> you probably want to check out the official samba How-To which has other
> considerations for migrating from Samba 2 -> 3
> 
> http://www.samba/org/samba/docs
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I meant 'encrypted passwords = no'

Craig