[Samba] Domain-name appended into username when "selecting users or groups"

[George Mamalakis]

Dear all,

I am facing a peculiar situation:
on my smb.conf  log level = 5, and on my windows machine I log on as a 
local administrator to add remote desktop users that are in fact domain 
users.
When my worgroup = SOMETHING, everything works fine. When I change my 
worgroup to: workgroup = example.com, and try to add a new remote 
desktop user, and set as an object name example.com\user and try to 
"check name", after a give the username and password I get the following 
error:

The following error occurred while using the user name 
(user at EXAMPLE.COM). and password you entered:
Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.

Which is true, since on the samba server, on my machine log I get:
# grep -i user machine

  Got user=[user at EXAMPLE.COM] domain=[] workstation=[MACHINE] len1=24 
len2=24
   Mapping user []\[user at EXAMPLE.COM] from workstation [MACHINE]
   Mapped domain from [] to [EXAMPLE.COM] for user [user at EXAMPLE.COM] 
from workstation [MACHINE]
   attempting to make a user_info for user at EXAMPLE.COM (user at EXAMPLE.COM)
   making strings for user at EXAMPLE.COM's user_info struct
   making blobs for user at EXAMPLE.COM's user_info struct
   check_ntlm_password:  Checking password for unmapped user 
[]\[user at EXAMPLE.COM]@[MACHINE] with the new password interface
   check_ntlm_password:  mapped user is: 
[EXAMPLE.COM]\[user at EXAMPLE.COM]@[MACHINE]
   smbldap_search_ext: base => [dc=ee,dc=auth,dc=gr], filter => 
[(&(uid=user at EXAMPLE.COM)(objectclass=sambaSamAccount))], scope => [2]
   ldapsam_getsampwnam: Unable to locate user [user at EXAMPLE.COM] count=0
   check_sam_security: Couldn't find user 'user at EXAMPLE.COM' in passdb.
   check_ntlm_password: sam authentication for user [user at EXAMPLE.COM] 
FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER
   check_ntlm_password:  Authentication for user [user at EXAMPLE.COM] -> 
[user at EXAMPLE.COM] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER

which shows that domain=[] (it's empty), whereas in the normal case it 
should be: domain=[EXAMPLE.COM] (which is the case when I "simple login" 
from my client hosts).

To sum things up (and clarify them a bit):
- when workgroup = SOMETHING, login on to domain as well as "Select 
Users or Group" works like a charm.
- when workgroup = example.com, login on to domain works fine, "Select 
Users or Group" fails due to the aforementioned reason.

my server is a fbsd box (64bit):
# uname -a
FreeBSD filesrv.example.com 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #1: Mon Sep 20 
13:33:27 EEST 2010     
root at filesrv.example.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FILESRV  amd64

and samba is installed from ports (version 3.4.9). Samba's backend is 
ldap, and both smb.conf's are *exactly* the same. The only difference is 
the workgroup directive (and the relevant directives in the 
smbldap-utils configuration file, which shouldn't make any difference).

I would be delighted if anyone could direct me to the right path.
I have not included my smb.conf files; if needed I will attach them "on 
demand" :) .

Thank you all for your time in advance,

mamalos

-- 
George Mamalakis

IT Officer
Electrical and Computer Engineer (Aristotle Un. of Thessaloniki),
MSc (Imperial College of London)

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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