samba - Nov 2013 - getting ERROR: failed to setup guest info. But I cannot setup a guest account due to security policies

I'm trying to set up samba so that we can login to our RHEL 5.5 machines
with our Windows 2008 R2 Active directory credentials. I am succesfully
able to join the domain, but I cannot get the SMBD deamon to stay running
and my log.smbd log is show  the

ERROR: failed to setup guest info.

error. Due to security policies I have erased the account nobody, and any other
account that has no actual user associated with it, so there is no guest type

account to set in the smb.conf

This is the smb.conf I currently have
[Global]
  netbios name = MYARCHLINUX
  workgroup = EXAMPLE
  realm = EXAMPLE.COM
  server string = %h ArchLinux Host
  security = ads
  encrypt passwords = yes
  password server = pdc.example.com

  idmap config * : backend = rid
  idmap config * : range = 10000-20000

  winbind use default domain = Yes
  winbind enum users = Yes
  winbind enum groups = Yes
  winbind nested groups = Yes
  winbind separator = +
  winbind refresh tickets = yes

  template shell = /bin/bash
  template homedir = /home/%D/%U

  preferred master = no
  dns proxy = no
  wins server = pdc.example.com
  wins proxy = no

  inherit acls = Yes
  map acl inherit = Yes
  acl group control = yes

  load printers = no
  debug level = 3
  use sendfile = no

I've removed actual domain names. I'm using Samba3x 3.6.6. Any help
would be greatly appreciated

On Tue, 2013-11-12 at 09:41 -0500, Jon West wrote:
> I'm trying to set up samba so that we can login to our RHEL 5.5
machines
> with our Windows 2008 R2 Active directory credentials. I am succesfully
> able to join the domain, but I cannot get the SMBD deamon to stay running
> and my log.smbd log is show  the
Hi
If that's all you want to do and you have posted the entirety of your
smb.conf then you shouldn't be running smbd. Is this the full setup?
Cheers,
Steve

Yes All I am trying to do is authenticate via AD, my linux box will not be
hosting files. There are shares on the windows domain controller that I
need to mount on my linux machine however and I'm trying to figure out the
best way to go about that. I don't want to have my users have to type in a
username and password every time they want to mount the windows share as
that might also be against security policy.

You are correct, only want to authenticate  with AD credentials, also want
to be able to mount a windows share (from the native windows machine) on
the linux machine without having to type in domain credentials at each time
of mount or have the passwords stored in plaintext on the linux machine