[Samba] Can't get NTLM authentication working with Samba

[Phill Edwards]

Anyone have any advice/tips to offer on this? I'm totally stuck and
dont't what else to try. I'm quite amazed it's this difficult to set
up!

Regards,
Phill

On 3 April 2010 01:00, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been running Samba for years to provide file shares, and now I'm
> trying to set it up as an NTLM authentication server for Squid. From
> what I've read, to do this you need to get winbindd up and running. I
> think I'm part way there but have hit a brick wall.
>
> I've set my machine us a PDC.
>
> "wbinfo -u" returns a list of users OK (though I notice one is missing
> but I'll deal with that later). But when I do a test authentication
> with "wbinfo -a sophie%XXXXXX" I get these errors:
>
>    plaintext password authentication failed
>    error code was NT_STATUS_CANT_ACCESS_DOMAIN_INFO (0xc00000da)
>    error messsage was: NT_STATUS_CANT_ACCESS_DOMAIN_INFO
>    Could not authenticate user sophie%summer with plaintext password
>    challenge/response password authentication failed
>    error code was NT_STATUS_CANT_ACCESS_DOMAIN_INFO (0xc00000da)
>    error messsage was: NT_STATUS_CANT_ACCESS_DOMAIN_INFO
>    Could not authenticate user sophie with challenge/response
>
> Clearly, the NT_STATUS_CANT_ACCESS_DOMAIN_INFO message is a problem
> but I can't for the life of me work out how to fix it. I _think_ it
> may be something to do with having to first get the server itself to
> join its own domain, but I can't figure out how to do that or what
> username%password I'm supposed to provide when I run "net rpc join".
> Can anyone provide me some advice?
>
> Regards,
> Phill
>