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  From: Mark Williams <hirm@chariot.net.au>
  To  : Ben Donohue <donohueb@bvm.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 22:46:59 +0930

Re: Lack of SAMBA knowlegde

You dont need to use the plain passwords reg patch to get things going...

Just enable "encrypt passwords" in smb.conf .

Mark Williams

> Jo Christer Řiongen wrote:
> >
> > Hello!
> >
> > I've been trying for the last couple of weeks trying to get a Linux box
> > shearing files'n'drives with our NT environment. The thing is that I
want
> > to use the Linux box (Redhat 6.0) as an intranet server. I've managed to
> > put Apache on it to act as the web server bur i still need to be able to
> > transfer files on to it from various NTworkstation and NT terminal
server
> > clients (Which are all 4.0 with SP4 or higher).
> >
> > So I looked in SAMBA's direction and started working. I downloaded SAMBA
> > 2.0.5a from the Net. I followed the install instructions, refered to the
> > SMB-HOWTO and got it sort of working. My graphical desktop enviroment is
> > GNOME. GNOME has a Samba browser. This browser shows the PDC and the
> > different BDC's and drives that are shared from them. But if I try to
enter
> > into these drives the SAMBA browser hangs and I have to kill it.
> >
> > Trying to conect to the Linux from a NT box via Network Neighborhood I
can
> > see the printers folder (yes I'm able to print out on the network
printer
> > via the PDC) and my own folder in the home directory. But trying to
access
> > my folder I get an error message: \\Linux\Jo is not accessible. The
network
> > name can not be found.
> >
> > >From the console on the Linux I've tried to do:
> >
> > [root@linux /etc]# smbpasswd -j sr00
> >
> > Giving me this response:
> >
> > Unknown parameter encountered: "domain controller"
> > Ignoring unknown parameter "domain controller"
> > cli_net_auth2: Error NT_STATUS_NO_TRUST_SAM_ACCOUNT
> > cli_nt_setup_creds: auth2 challenge failed
> > modify_trust_password: unable to setup the PDC credentials to machine
SR00.
> > Error was : NT_STATUS_NO_TRUST_SAM_ACCOUNT.
> > 1999/09/22 13:55:11 : change_trust_account_password: Failed to change
> > password for domain SR00.
> > Unable to join domain SR00.
> >
> > I also tried:
> >
> > [root@linux /etc]# /usr/local/samba/bin/smbclient -L sr00
> >
> > Ending up with
> >
> > Can't find include file /etc/smb.conf
> > Unknown parameter encountered: "domain controller"
> > Ignoring unknown parameter "domain controller"
> > Added interface ip=192.168.64.223 bcast=192.168.64.255
nmask=255.255.255.0
> > Got a positive name query response from 192.168.64.254
( 192.168.64.254 )
> > Password:
> > session setup failed: ERRDOS - ERRnoaccess (Access denied.)
> >
> > So what have I (not) done? I should also mayby mention that from Server
> > Manager in NT the Linux box shows as a Windows NT 4.2 Server...
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Jo
> >
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>
> there's a couple of things i have done to get samba working with NT.
> 1. i'm not sure about recent versions of samba, but the version i have,
> i had to set a registry key in NT to enable plain text passwords. i
> can't find the registry hack right now but it's on the net somewhere and
> easily found.
>
> 2. try changing your password on the linux box. i've found that
> sometimes changing your password gets it all up and running again. i
> just havent spent enough time on figuring out *why* i had to do it. it
> just worked.
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