[Samba] session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE

[Roger Wu]

2015-11-04 19:43 GMT+08:00 Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com>:

> On 04/11/15 11:33, Roger Wu wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 2015-11-04 18:41 GMT+08:00 Rowland Penny <rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com
>> <mailto:rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com>>:
>>
>>
>>     On 04/11/15 10:28, Roger Wu wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>             OK, you seem to be trying to set up a standalone server,
>>         you do
>>             realise that you will need to create your users on this as
>>         well as
>>             on the windows machines.
>>
>>
>>         yes, but I hope samba can use NIS authentication instead of
>>         using it's own database.
>>         Do I need to use smbpasswd to create user accounts again? It's
>>         against what I need...
>>
>>
>>     Well, as I don't know what you what, I can only advise on what I
>>     see, and I see you trying to setup a standalone server.
>>
>>
>>             You might as well remove these lines, they are the defaults:
>>
>>                     security = USER
>>                     passdb backend = tdbsam
>>
>>
>>         Don't I need to set the security level?
>>
>>
>>     You don't need them because they are the *default* settings.
>>
>>
>>             You might as well remove this line, it isn't needed on a
>>             standalone server:
>>
>>                     idmap config * : backend = tdb
>>
>>         I didn't  set these parameters. They are reported by testparm
>>         command.
>>
>>
>>     Don't post a smb.conf from testparm without saying so, this is
>>     probably why you are getting the other two lines above, testparm
>>     shows *all* lines in smb.conf, the ones you added *and* the
>>     default ones.
>>
>>
>>
>>     I think you are going to have to tell us just what you are trying
>>     to achieve. Also if your windows machines are part of a domain.
>>
>>     Rowland
>>
>> Please pardon me for poor English. I tried to describe what I want as
>> clear as I can.
>> My goal is to make our users can access their own workstation account and
>> personal files from windows XP/7.
>> So, it seems to me that if I can setup a samba server and let users login
>> from windows using NIS authentication,
>> that would be perfect, then I don't need to create smb accounts again.
>>
>
> OK, what you are trying to do is possible, but before we can help you, we
> need just a little more information.
> How many users and workstations do you have?
> Do you have any Unix Workstations?
>
> You should never apologise for poor English, I do not know what your
> language is, but I can guarantee I don't speak it, I only speak English :-)
>
> Rowland


Thanks for your kindness. We do have Unix/Linux Workstations, I'm not
really sure how many machines we have,
maybe around 30 with different domains.
But I believe only few persons need samba service, it will be less than 20.
Does that matter?

Roger

>
>
> The only thing a user needs to do is to explore the link such as
>> \\testcad16\<user_account>, then one can access his own
>> workstation account and files.
>>
>> In such case, how should I do to achieve my goal?
>> I've been tried many samba versions, and each version seems to have mild
>> difference while setting smb.conf.
>> some parameters work and some don't for one version, but maybe stands in
>> opposite for another.
>> I am kind of confused which parameters are what I need.
>>
>>
>>
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