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

[Gaiseric Vandal]

If my notes are correct, I joined my PDC to its own domain with the 
following steps


# smbpasswd -a -m PDC
# net rpc join -S PDC -W MYDOMAIN   -U Administrator




On 04/02/2010 11:52 PM, Phill Edwards wrote:
> 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
>>
>>