has anyone else had similar problems to this? please reply to samba-technical and samba-ntdom. also please remember that i am not on the samba@samba.anu.edu.au list. <a href="mailto:lkcl@samba.anu.edu.au" > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton </a> <a href="http://mailhost.cb1.com/~lkcl"> Samba and Network Development </a> <a href="http://www.samba.co.uk" > Samba and Network Consultancy </a> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 11:56:59 +1100 From: Craig Kelley <ink@inconnu.isu.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <samba-ntdom@samba.anu.edu.au> Subject: Invalid password length 18255 I've setup ntdomain passwords with samba before and it worked fine; today (March 20) I set it up again on a RedHat 4.2 box and I keep getting this message in the samba logs when I conencect (after it chooses [NT LM 0.12] as the protocol): [000] 00 00 52 58 4E 45 54 00 57 69 6E 64 6F 77 73 20 ..RXNET. Windows [010] 4E 54 20 31 33 38 31 00 00 57 69 6E 64 6F 77 73 NT 1381. .Windows [020] 20 4E 54 20 34 2E 30 00 00 NT 4.0. . switch message SMBsesssetupX (pid 17232) 03/20/1998 17:51:39: ERROR: Invalid password length 18255 your machine may be under attack by a user exploiting an old bug Attack was from IP=134.50.8.81 Closing connections The machine used to belong to the "RXNET" domain (NTServer) and I was attempting to switch it over to my samba domain, but the server is mis- interpreting the above message. (this was generated from attempting to browse the samba domain). The Windows message is "An unexpected network error occured". --- When I attempt to change over to the new domain (INKD), it gets a bit further (again, this snip is after the security is set to [NT LM 0.12]): smb_bcc=5 [000] 49 4E 4B 44 00 INKD. write_socket(5,78) write_socket(5,78) wrote 78 got smb length of 133 got message type 0x0 of len 0x85 03/20/1998 17:56:22 Transaction 2 of length 137 size=133 smb_com=0x73 smb_rcls=0 smb_reh=0 smb_err=0 smb_flg=24 smb_flg2=3 smb_tid=0 smb_pid=51966 smb_uid=0 smb_mid=0 smt_wct=13 smb_vwv[0]=117 (0x75) smb_vwv[1]=102 (0x66) smb_vwv[2]=61440 (0xF000) smb_vwv[3]=50 (0x32) smb_vwv[4]=0 (0x0) smb_vwv[5]=17253 (0x4365) smb_vwv[6]=0 (0x0) smb_vwv[7]=1 (0x1) smb_vwv[8]=18255 (0x474F) smb_vwv[9]=0 (0x0) smb_vwv[10]=0 (0x0) smb_vwv[11]=212 (0xD4) smb_vwv[12]=0 (0x0) smb_bcc=41 [000] 00 00 52 58 4E 45 54 00 57 69 6E 64 6F 77 73 20 ..RXNET. Windows [010] 4E 54 20 31 33 38 31 00 00 57 69 6E 64 6F 77 73 NT 1381. .Windows [020] 20 4E 54 20 34 2E 30 00 00 NT 4.0. . switch message SMBsesssetupX (pid 17253) 03/20/1998 17:56:22: ERROR: Invalid password length 18255 your machine may be under attack by a user exploiting an old bug Attack was from IP=134.50.8.81 I am using arcfour.o from the ssh distribution, which is the only thing I've done differently since the last time I setup samba PDC. Thanks, Craig Wheel is turning, but the hamster is dead. Craig Kelley -- kellcrai@isu.edu http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger ink@inconnu.isu.edu for PGP block