From: Kenn Humborg (kenn at domain bluetree.ie)
Date: Fri 07 Jul 2000 - 13:01:19 IST
> All I know about the wonders of SMB I know from the Samba docs so I'm
> not sure exactly what our NT box was/is. All I know was that the Samba
> boxes reported it as the "current master browser" and everything worked
> ok once you told the win9x clients to look at our local domain for
> password auth. (so I guess the NT box was a domain controller)
Under Start->Programs->Administrative Tools, does it say User Manager
or User Manager for Domains. If "for Domains" then it's a Domain
Controller.
> All the Linux boxes were authenticating off the NT box(security-server)
> and Samba was able to see the NT box but the Windows boxes weren't so
> the Linux boxes recognising the NT server was pretty useless.. :)
I'm not sure what you mean here. What do you mean by "see the
NT box"? "Recognising the NT server"?
> I really don't fancy hacking the registry to force plaintext password :(
Try joining Samba to the domain. It's really easy. First go to
Start->Programs->Administrative Tools->Server Manager and select
Computer->Add To Domain. Enter the name that the Samba server shows
up as in Network Neighbourhood.
Then, on the Linux box, do
# smbpasswd -j MYDOMAIN
Then, in smb.conf, do
workgroup = MYDOMAIN
security = domain
password server = *
and restart smbd.
Give it a shot.
Later,
Kenn
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