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Date:      Mon, 15 Dec 2003 13:11:39 -0500
From:      "HOLLOW, CHRISTOPHER" <christopher.hollow@cgi.com>
To:        darryl@osborne-ind.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Samba tutorial
Message-ID:  <3FDDF95B.1000700@cgi.com>
In-Reply-To: <06e401c3c325$8d41c590$0701a8c0@darryl>
References:  <06e401c3c325$8d41c590$0701a8c0@darryl>

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> from an NT 4 server, it keeps prompting
> for username/password.

Have you used the smbpasswd utility to create Samba user accounts on the 
BSD box?  As per:
http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/docs/htmldocs/smbpasswd.8.html

Ruben was getting at that by suggesting...
 > the windows domain, you must also create the same user on the
 > samba box.)

HTH,

Christopher Hollow



Darryl Hoar wrote:

>I followed your tutorial, using
>FreeBSD 5.1 the same setup as
>you describe.
>
>When I try to access the samba shares
>from an NT 4 server, it keeps prompting
>for username/password.  None of the 
>Primary Domain passwords work.  If I 
>access the share from a Win2000 machine
>it works beautifully.  Does this have
>something to do with password encryption?
>
>Any ideas how to get around this problem ?
>
>thanks,
>Darryl
>
>  
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Ruben de Groot [mailto:mail25@bzerk.org]
>>Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2003 12:57 AM
>>To: Darryl Hoar
>>Subject: Re: Samba tutorial
>>
>>
>>On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:16:12PM -0600, Darryl Hoar typed:
>>    
>>
>>>Thanks it looks informative.  Will it work with
>>>FreeBSD 4.9 (which is what I have installed) ?
>>>
>>>The password part seems like you need 5.1 to 
>>>get it to look to the PDC for passwords.
>>>      
>>>
>>Correct. Samba does run quite well on 4.x, but you'll have to
>>create the windows domain users as (dummy) unix users, since
>>nsswitch.conf doesn't work on 4.x. This makes administering
>>such a box a little redundant (whenever you create a user in
>>the windows domain, you must also create the same user on the
>>samba box.)
>>
>>    
>>
>>>thanks,
>>>Darryl
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Ruben de Groot [mailto:mail25@bzerk.org]
>>>>Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2003 2:43 PM
>>>>To: Darryl Hoar
>>>>Subject: Re: Samba tutorial
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hi Darryl,
>>>>
>>>>I did this on some FBSD 5.1 systems and wrote the following howto:
>>>>
>>>>http://www.bzerk.org/documents/ntdomauth/
>>>>
>>>>Maybe it's of some help to you.
>>>>
>>>>Ruben
>>>>
>>>>On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 10:16:03AM -0600, Darryl Hoar typed:
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>Greetings,
>>>>>I just installed Freebsd 4.9 on a machine.
>>>>>I want to setup Samba so that a NT4 server
>>>>>can copy some files to the Freebsd 4.9 machine.
>>>>>
>>>>>I am looking for fine manual to read, or turtorial
>>>>>for setting it up.  The Freebsd machine will be a
>>>>>member of an existing windows domain, but will
>>>>>not be a PDC or BDC.
>>>>>
>>>>>thanks in advance for pointers.
>>>>>
>>>>>-Darryl
>>>>>
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>

-- 
Christopher Hollow - Technical Consultant
Infrastructure & Technology Support
Toronto, ON






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