[Samba] clients that are not a part of the domain cannot authenticate

Wolfgang Riedmann wolfgang at riedmann.it
Mon Aug 10 23:43:51 MDT 2009


Hi,

I have asked that last week with a little different subject, but the problem remains.

When connecting with a Windows machine (not part of the domain) to the Samba server, the 
client is not authenticating, even when the user exists in the domain.

Domain master is a Windows 2003 SBS machine, the Samba server is a Debian Lenny 
machine.
The problem is occurring with Samba 3.2.13, with Samba 3.0.24 and the same configuration 
it works. Unfortunately after the upgrade from Etch to Lenny (Etch has Samba 3.0.24, Lenny 
3.2.13) Samba presented this problem.

In the log file I can find this error message:

domain_client_validate: unable to validate password for user wolfgang in domain 
LIFEBOOKWR to Domain controller PDCALPI01. Error was 
NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER.

And this is the global part of the configuration:

[global]
   workgroup = alpi
   server string = lxarchiv
   wins server = 192.168.1.1
   dns proxy = no
   log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
   max log size = 1000
   syslog = 0
   panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
    security = domain
   encrypt passwords = true
   passdb backend = tdbsam
   obey pam restrictions = yes
   invalid users = root
   passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
   passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* 
%n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
  add user script = /usr/sbin/adduser --quiet --disabled-password --gecos "" %u --gid 1001
   printing = bsd
   printcap name = /etc/printcap
   socket options = TCP_NODELAY
   domain master = auto


Thank you in advance for any help!

Wolfgang



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