[Samba] smbclient v3 against samba server v4

[Andrea Zagli]

Il giorno mer 19 dic 2018 13:11:50 CET, Rowland Penny via samba ha scritto:

> On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 11:20:30 +0000
> Andrea Zagli <azagli at libero.it> wrote:
>
>> Il giorno mer 19 dic 2018 11:46:56 CET, Rowland Penny via samba ha
>> scritto:
>>
>> > On Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:31:38 +0000
>> > Andrea Zagli via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >> hi all
>> >>
>> >> i'm trying to use smbclient v3 with a samba server v4 configured
>> >> as ad
>> >>
>> >> with anonymous login it works; but it doesn't using a user
>> >>
>> >> i get NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
>> >>
>> >> the pc isn't in the domain; but i tried from a non domain pc with
>> >> smbclient v4 and it works
>> >
>> > I think you have answered yourself, it doesn't work with smbclient
>> > v3 (by which, I take it you mean from a Samba 3.x.x version), but
>> > it does with smbclient v4. There have been a great many changes
>> > between Samba 3.x.x and now and it is probably at least one of
>> > these changes that is stopping it working.
>>
>> so the next questions are:
>> - winbind v3 could authenticate against samba v4 ad?
>
> Samba 3.6.x should be able to authenticate from an AD domain, I
> believe the same goes for 3.5.x
>
>> or i could
>> simply use nsswitch with ldap (as with a samba v3 server)?
>
> Probably, never tried it, nslcd works against AD
>
>> - samba v3 can join a samba v4 ad?
>
> Samba 3.6.x has been known to join an AD domain, not sure about 3.5.x
>
>>
>> > The only versions that Samba supports are 4.7.x, 4.8.x and 4.9.x,
>> > all others are supported by the OS's
>> >
>> > Having said all that, we may be able to help you, if you give us
>> > more info ;-)
>> >
>> > What OS is smbclient v3 running on and what is in its smb.conf (not
>> > that the latter should affect smbclient)
>> > What OS is the Samba AD DC running on and what is in its smb.conf.
>> >
>>
>> smbclient V3
>>   - debian 6.0.10
>>   - smbclient 3.5.6
>
> Both Squeeze & Samba 3.5.x are EOL, can I suggest you upgrade to the
> latest Debian version. You can also find the latest Samba version here:
>


unfortunately i cannot upgrade to samba 4 on these client pc

but i upgraded to samba 3.6.6 and now it seems to work (at least  
smbclient; asap i'll try other aspects)

thanks a lot