[ILUG] Samba and Windows 2000

[Burke, Gary : GIG IS&T]

You could try setting
security=server
password server=NameOfNT(P|B)DC

This will then authenticate users against the NT box that you point it at,
so if they are already logged into an NT domain, they won't need to login to
the samba box too.
Samba still needs to match username with the users on the Linux box, so if a
username doesn't appear in /etc/passwd, then that user cannot login.  You
don't need an smbpasswd file for this method.  I tried it on our domain here
once and it worked very well.  Can't remember why I took it off though...


Gary

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	ccostelloe at flogas.ie [SMTP:ccostelloe at flogas.ie]
> Sent:	Tuesday, March 28, 2000 1:15 AM
> To:	ilug at linux.ie
> Subject:	[ILUG] Samba and Windows 2000
> 
> I have been fighting with Samba for some time, trying to view a shared
> directory on a Corel Linux box from a Windows 2000 PC.  I really have read
> the "manuals", but the only thing I have not been able to check was
> searching the archives on www.samba.org since it seems to have been down
> or so slow that it was timing out 95% of the time for the last week, and
> the mirrors I tried kick you back to the main site for archive searches.
> 
> Anyway, most of the setup was straightforward, and a Windows 98 box on the
> same test network can see and access the shared Linux directory and
> printers no problem (the shares are also visible from Corel Linux, I like
> it's "File manager" and it's automount that shows everything!). The
> Windows 2000 box can see the Linux computer in it's "network
> neighbourhood" equivalent, but when you try to access it by
> double-clicking on it, it comes up with the error "The Remote procedure
> call failed and did not execute".  You get the same error if you run "net
> view \\CorelLinux" from a command prompt.  I am using "security=share" on
> the Linux box and want to use no passwords: I don't want a Microsoft box
> controlling passwords and logons, and the network the Linux box will
> integrate to is "managed" by Novell SFT servers with no external access to
> the Linux box (it's reached an impossible level for users with the amount
> of stuff they have to log on to, so I don't want to add another logon).
> I!
>  checked the usual stuff (hosts allow, null passwords, encrypt
> passwords=yes, pings OK).  I tried the NT registry change to enable
> plain-text passwords, but it did not work (I suspect it may only suit NT
> and not Windows 2000, because much of the "path" it quotes is not in
> Windows 2000, but I am not sure - I set up the path, but no joy).
> Initially, Samba's log file showed on pass_check_smb the errors "Couldn't
> find user 'administrator' in UNIX password database" and then (after I
> added administrator to Linux) "Couldn't find user 'administrator' in
> smb_passwd file", even after I added administrator to smb_passwd.
> 
> Anyone wrestled with this monster before?
> 
> 
> Ciaran Costelloe
> Flogas Ireland Ltd
> 
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