samba - Jul 2006 - W2K Login Problem

I believe I have configured samba correctly.  The reason I believe this is
that when I login as my unix/samba user =93myname=94 I  do successfully log in.

However, I have 2 problems, one big and one small.  The small one is that
even though I think I did the [profile] section properly, it puts my profile
into my home dir (puts it in /home/myname/profile)

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That one I could live with, I wanted profiles in a different spot
/etc/samba/profiles, but what the hell

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The big problem is that my username =93myname=94  primary group is root.  I can
log in successfully, and any user I create also a member of the root group
can login, but NOBODY else!!

I created a staff group and created unix/samba users that have as a primary
group =93staff=94  they exist in both samba and unix,  then did the smblient
=85=85.%username  thing that gives me access from the terminal window for one of
these staff users.  The samba machine terminal then lets me ls and check
what is in there.  But the W2K machine will not allow me to log these
=93staff=94 users unless I make them a member of the =93root=94 group.

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I think it must be some kind of permission thing but I have no idea at all
what to do.

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Any ideas?  Suggestions?  Help?=20


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I too have many config problems with all *nix distros. I'm using Fedora5.
Pretty happy.
What has really help is that I found out about "Webmin".  
It allow one to configure everything from a web browser from anywhere.

Most of everything now works including Samba server.

That said, make sure that Samba passwords are encrypted as that is default
in win server.
And, here is an item i just found and implemented:
>From Win server go to Admin tools | Domain Controller Security Settings |
Local Policies | Security options
Scroll down to Microsoft network server: Digitally sign communications
(always) Set this to Disabled as it is Not implemented by default.
then do from dos window GPUpdate /force.
ciao.
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