[Samba] samba 3 and active directory computers

[Ben Cone]

Ok, I am going to tackle compiling samba from source and go from there.  I
have compiled a lot of other things including samba4 before from source on
Ubuntu so no big deal.  I was hoping for a different fix, but I'll go that
route and go from there.

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Volker Lendecke
<Volker.Lendecke at sernet.de>wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:32:15AM -0600, Ben Cone wrote:
> >
> > I will note that Samba installed from Ubuntu's repositories does not
> include
> > the file ntlmssp.c on my system.  I did grab a copy of the file, put it
> in
> > the proper place, restarted samba, and I see the same things in my logs.
> > The samba version from the repository is 3.4.7.
>
> Did you recompile Samba? I'm not sure, but from what you
> write sounds like you did not.
>
> If you want official Ubuntu repos with that patch, you need
> to contact Canonical support about this. You might also
> contact one of the companies listed under
> http://samba.org/samba/support to assist you to compile
> Samba for you.
>
> > I am still locked into how to make this work.  It reads that this seems
> not
> > to be a problem at all in Samba 6 and I am debating installing the latest
> > stable version of samba from source instead of aptitude.  Of course, that
> > means I don't get patches from Ubuntu for it but once I get this going I
> am
> > hoping to not have to do any real work on it again for a couple of years.
>
> That's a valid request. But apparently you found a but in
> what Ubuntu ships. One thing to look at might be to remove
> the "force group". If you can live without that, it might
> help you work around that bug.
>
> Volker
>