[Samba] XP cannot read files after upgrade to Debian Samba 3.2.3

[Veselin Kantsev]

Thank you much David, your temporary solution worked fine.
I had to disable encrypted passwords though, otherwise
"NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE"


Thanks again.

Hopefully Jeremy will come up with the fix soon.

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Veselin 

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On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:15:51PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote:
> Veselin Kantsev wrote:
>> Thank you much Jeremy,
>>
>> Do you know of some temporary workaround that I can use for the time being?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
> Veselin,
>
> 	The simplest way would be to download a copy of the 3.0.24 that you know 
> will work and install that on the 3.2.3 machine. You don't need to remove 
> 3.2.3, you can simply install 2.0.24 in the default location of 
> /usr/local/samba. You are probably safe with 3.0.31. Just download the 
> tarball at:
>
> http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.31.tar.gz
>
> 	If you need 3.0.24:
>
> http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/old-versions/samba-3.0.24.tar.gz
>
> 	Then simply:
>
> (1) tar -xzf samba-3.0.24.tar.gz	# untar the source
> (2) cd samba-3.0.24/src			# change to the src directory
> (3) ./configure				# default install in /usr/local/samba
> ** install any missing packages (gcc, etc..)
> (4) make
> (5) make install
>
> ** now figure out where your smb.conf and smbpasswd files are stored and 
> where you want you log files. (Usually /etc/samba/ and /var/log) Assumed 
> in step (7)
>
> ** make sure you stop 3.2.3 (smbd and nmbd), change to the 
> /usr/local/samba/bin directory then start your new version of each:
>
> (6) cd /usr/local/samba/bin		# new executable location
>
> (7)(a) ./nmbd --daemon --configfile=/etc/samba/smb.conf --log-basename=log.nmb.test
>
> (7)(b) ./smbd --daemon --configfile=/etc/samba/smb.conf --log-basename  
> log.smb.test --smb-passwd-file=/etc/samba/smbpasswd 
> --private-dir=/etc/samba
>
> 	If disaster strikes and everything goes bad, not to worry, simply issue 
> the command
>
> (8) make revert				# Restores original 3.2.3 binaries
> 					#+if they were overwritten
>
>
> 	That's it. Takes about 20 minutes total. Your new self-compiled samba 
> will run just fine until Jeremy is done looking at the problem. It is 
> always good to have this work-around in your hip-pocket just in case a 
> 'new feature' is introduced in the latest release ;-)
>
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