[Samba] Testing AD with first XP client

Rowland Penny rowlandpenny241155 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 18:54:51 UTC 2015


On 11/09/15 19:27, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>
> On 09/11/2015 02:15 PM, Sketch wrote:
>> On Fri, 11 Sep 2015, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>
>>> So now I am up to testing the AD from the network.  I am using an XP 
>>> client (the only Win OS I have here) The notebook is a 'new' load 
>>> with all patches. It does not have user login control yet (so 
>>> effectively in as Administrator on it) and workgroup is WORKGROUP.
>>
>> I take it that means you haven't joined the domain yet.  That would 
>> be my first step in testing.
>
> I am trying first guest workstation...
>
>>
>>> Net view /DOMAIN:HOME.HTT
>>>
>>> came back (after a long wait) with:
>>>
>>> System error 6118 has occured.
>>>
>>> The list of servers for this workgroup is not currently available.
>>>
>>> I did set 'guest ok = yes' for the [Demo] share.
>>
>> I'm not really familiar with the NET commands on Windows 
>> (particularly VIEW), but /DOMAIN might not work if you're not on the 
>> domain.
>
> I go back to the start of Windows networking.  We did everything from 
> the DOS prompt.
>
>>   You might just try browsing to \\homebase\demo in explorer.  Or 
>> "net use Z: \\homebase\demo"
>>
>
> Good point.  I tried that and actually was asked for user name for 
> 'homebase'.  So since none of my users got added by classicupdate (and 
> no one has pointed me to what to look for to troubleshoot this), I 
> tried 'Administrator' (both cap and lower) and the passwork I use for 
> samba-tool and got 'password or user name is invalid'  I think checked 
> with:
>
> # wbinfo -u
> administrator
> dns-homebase
> dhcpduser
> krbtgt
> guest
>
> I also tried guest with no password and that failed.
>
>
>

Try adding 'map to guest = bad user' to smb.conf on the DC and restart samba

Rowland




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