[Samba] Problem using rpcclient as root user -- can't authenticate

Rob Tanner rtanner at linfield.edu
Tue Jan 31 00:37:15 GMT 2006


Thank you Adam.  That did it.

Adam Nielsen said the following on 01/30/2006 03:42 PM:

>>The problem I've encountered is with rpcclient.  It looks like it's 
>>trying to treat the user as a domain user and not simply local to the 
>>server.  For example:
>>
>> >  rpcclient berkeley -U root%XXXXXX -c "enumdrivers 2"
>>    
>>
>
>If that's the case, you should be able to use "-U HOSTNAME\\root" where
>HOSTNAME is the NetBIOS name of the local machine, and can be used to
>specify local UNIX users in domain form (this is the normal way of
>specifying users in a domain that are local to a specific PC.)
>
>Cheers,
>Adam.
>  
>



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