samba - Feb 2003 - No domain server was available to validate your password.

Hi all,

I have a strange problem with the Samba server as PDC.
I periodically get the error message "No domain server
was available to validate your password". But, at
other times it would login fine and execute the login
scripts to handle all the map drives.

I don't have the slightest clue where the problem is.
When the problem arise, I don't even need to do
anything about it. If I leave it alone for awhile,
sometimes up to a day, it will just go away, and it
will work again.

Please help, please forward all your replies to
terence_kew@yahoo.com.sg as I am not subscribed to the
list.

Thanks.

Regards,
Terence Kew


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How is your dns setup? do you have a local dns or wins running on your
server ?

Raj

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Subject: [Samba] No domain server was available to validate your
password.


Hi all,

I have a strange problem with the Samba server as PDC.
I periodically get the error message "No domain server
was available to validate your password". But, at
other times it would login fine and execute the login
scripts to handle all the map drives.

I don't have the slightest clue where the problem is.
When the problem arise, I don't even need to do
anything about it. If I leave it alone for awhile,
sometimes up to a day, it will just go away, and it
will work again.

Please help, please forward all your replies to
terence_kew@yahoo.com.sg as I am not subscribed to the
list.

Thanks.

Regards,
Terence Kew


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> 
> You are right, I am using "security = domain" at the
> PDC, isn't it suppose to be?
>
security = domain means, that your samba looks for an password server in 
this domain and uses this authentication.
the password server is written in "password server ="
so samba could not find the password server, and responses an error.
if your samba server is the authentication server, so u have to use 
security=user
please the refer the samba HOWTO's

e.g.
http://at.samba.org/samba/docs/
man smb.conf
Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf in your samba distribution.

 >
 > Anyway, I have forwarded my smb.conf for your
 > reference. Please comment accordingly. Thanks.
 >
please be not angry - i have to work too. - so i will answer as short as 
possile...
please refer the doc's as discripted upwards.
> [global]
> 	passwd program = /usr/bin/smbpasswrd %
*) as i know it sounds like "smbpasswd" not smbpasswrd ;-)
*) as far as i know, u have to use the unix/linux program (as passwd) 
for this
next, u do not use password sync (as u wrote below...) - unnessecary.


> 	dns proxy = yes
u have it?????
> 	logon path = \\%N\%U\.profile
> 	encrypt passwords = yes
u use encrypt password:
did u create the unix user and added them with "smbpasswd -a [user]"
to
your smb database?
> 	debug level = 3
> 	security = user
this is ok..., but u wrote, that u used "domain"?????

> 	local master = yes
this means: this server is the PDC...
> 	server string = Samba %v on Redhat 8
*attention* firewall - redhat 8's default is to block netbios...


> 	os level = 34
u can increase this to 65, if it's the primary controler.