Jonathan Ryshpan
2005-Apr-08 22:31 UTC
[Samba] No domain server was available to validate your password.
I am a Samba newbie who has just set up a Samba server running under Fedora Core 3 and a client running under Win 98. When I log in, I get the message: No domain server was available to validate your password. You may not be able to gain access to some network resources. Also, Any attempt to see the network from "Network Neighborhood" or from "Windows Explorer" fails with the error box: Unable to browse the network . The network is not accessible For more information ... I have run all the tests in the HOWTO section: .../Samba-HOWTO-Collection/diagnosis.html up to and including the last two: C:\WINDOWS>net use x: \\claremont\TMP on the client, which does, in fact make the device x: on my client equivalent to /tmp on my server, and $ nmblookup -M MYGROUP querying MYGROUP on 192.168.255.255 192.168.1.35 MYGROUP<1d> on the server, which looks OK. Nevertheless (to repeat) attempts to browse the network from "Network Neighborhood" or from "Windows Explorer" all fail. I have taken some logs with ethereal. The one attached, windowsLogin shows activity from starting smbd and nmbd, through logging on from the windows machine (amito) and and attempt to browse the network from it. I have also attached my smb.conf file. The network is very small. It consists of only 3 machines: # Gateway to the Internet and name server for the local net 192.168.0.1 homeportal.gateway.2wire.net # Windows client 192.168.1.34 amito.localdomain amito # Linux Samba server 192.168.1.35 claremont.localdomain claremont What's going on? -------------- next part -------------- # Samba config file created using SWAT # from 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2005/04/07 17:33:00 # Global parameters [global] workgroup = MYGROUP server string = Samba Server auth methods = guest, sam username map = /etc/samba/smbusers log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log max log size = 50 name resolve order = lmhosts host bcast server signing = auto socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_SNDBUF=8192 SO_RCVBUF=8192 printcap name = /etc/printcap preferred master = Yes domain master = Yes wins support = Yes ldap ssl = no idmap uid = 16777216-33554431 idmap gid = 16777216-33554431 cups options = raw [homes] comment = Home Directories read only = No [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba printable = Yes browseable = No [tmp] comment = Temporary file space path = /tmp read only = No guest ok = Yes [jonrysh] path = /home/jonrysh guest ok = Yes
Jonathan Ryshpan
2005-Apr-09 18:44 UTC
[Samba] Re: No domain server was available to validate your password. [Solved]
> On Friday 08 April 2005 16:30, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > I am a Samba newbie who has just set up a Samba server running under > > Fedora Core 3 and a client running under Win 98. > > > > When I log in, I get the message: > > No domain server was available to validate your password. You > > may not be able to gain access to some network resources. > > ... > > I have run all the tests in the HOWTO section: > > .../Samba-HOWTO-Collection/diagnosis.html > > up to and including the last two: > > C:\WINDOWS>net use x: \\claremont\TMP > > on the client, which does, in fact make the device x: on my client > > equivalent to /tmp on my server...On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 17:50 -0600, John H Terpstra wrote:> Did you turn off the Linux firewall?The firewall was never on. Would it have been possible to access files in the server (as it was possible) if the firewall was on? On Sat, 9 Apr 2005 13:24 -0400 alton bailey wrote:> in your smb.conf ther is an option domain logon should be enable in > order to validate user authentication.This was the problem. Thank you very much for your help. I am afraid the documentation for this option and it's handling in swat isn't what it should be. The implication in the documentation is that "Domain Logon" should be "NO" except for unusual cases. In swat, it's only visible when the view is "Advanced". Judging by my experience, it looks like it should always be on in very simple networks like mine. -- Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@pacbell.net> Berkeley Linux Team
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