[Samba] URGENT! Windows Server 2003 SP2 broke samba

[John H Terpstra]

On Tuesday 26 June 2007 15:17, boxyzzy at netscape.net wrote:
> Reading the "How To Compile Samba" leads me to this question. Must I
> compile Samba with AD support as described in that document in order
> for the Samba server to be able to have userids/passwords authenticated
> by a W2K3/SP2 AD?

It is preferable to compile with LDAP and Kerberos support - not essential.

> I only need to be able to continue to provide access to users' Unix
> home directories from their PCs via a Windows login script that
> includes: net use s: \\sambasvr\username  (where username is the same
> for both Unix and Windows).
>  
> Gee! I wish I had seen this coming! 

Windows updates change key networking DLLs. The result if often a need for 
Samba to support new network operations. It is therefore a really good 
practice to keep your Samba up to date, add to that the security fixes etc. 
and it is an even more desirable practice to keep with the flow.

In the absence of Samba updates you will almost certainly eventually 
experience client connectivity problems - time and circumstance have a way of 
doing that at the most inopportune moment.

- John T.

> Charles 
>  
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: John H Terpstra <jht at samba.org> 
> To: samba at lists.samba.org 
> Sent: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 7:54 pm 
> Subject: Re: [Samba] URGENT! Windows Server 2003 SP2 broke samba 
>  
>  
> On Monday 25 June 2007 12:32, boxyzzy at netscape.net wrote: 
>
> > After applying SP2 to our Windows Server 2003 domain controller, we
>
> are 
>
> > unable to access Samba Version 3.0.4 shared user diectories.  
> >   
> > Access fails with these message:  
> > unable to validate password for user USER in domain DOMAIN to Domain 
> > controller \\DOODAH. Error was NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED. 
> > 
> > If no one has experienced and resolved this, how do I debug this 
> > situation? 
> >   
> > Thanks, in advance, for any help offered.  
>
>  
> Please update to the current version of Samba as soon as possible. The
> version 
> you are using has many problems with Windows 2003/XP. The current
> version is 
> 3.0.25a - yours dates back to around December 2003 - that is very old,
> out of 
> date, and will not work with SP2 or later. 
>  
> - John T. 
>  
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John H Terpstra
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