[Samba] ntlm_auth issue

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 16:40 +0000, Andy Partington wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
>  
> 
>   I have been scouring the net after coming to a halt whilst following
> this tutorial http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-Guide/DomApps.html
> and eventually thought I'd subscribe to the list for some help and
> advice.
> 
>  
> 
> I am basically setting up a test box to get Squid to authenticate users
> via Active Directory, I have had a few issues which I have sorted out
> but this still has me stumped. The server has authed with the main AD
> and I can get info when running wbinfo -u and wbinfo -g but moving onto
> the next stage where I use ntlm_auth I receive this error:
> 
>  
> 
> [root at proxy-new ~]# /usr/bin/ntlm_auth --username=andy
> --domain=WILTS.LOCAL
> 
> password:
> 
> could not obtain winbind separator!
> 
> Reading winbind reply failed! (0x01)
> 
> :  (0x0)
> 
>  
> 
> I've tried changing winbind separator with a / and * and also left it
> out as it defaults to / ? but still receive this error, I expect I am
> overlooking something completely but been a few hours now and head
> bashing is not far around the corner. 

Try 'wbinfo -p' (simple test message to winbind).  The error you are
seeing indicates to me that winbindd is not running, so we couldn't ask
it that question. 

Andrew Bartlett

-- 
Andrew Bartlett
http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.
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