samba - Mar 1999 - No Domain server was available to validate your password

Hi,
  When I try to log onto a Samba server from a windows 98 workstation I 
get the following error message "No Domain server was available to 
validate your password.  You may not be able to gain access to some 
network resources."  Yet when I click OK and bypass this error message I 
can telnet to the server from the workstation, but I can't browse the 
Network Neighborhood.  Has anyone ever encountered this problem and 
what's the solution?

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Hi Andre. When I got this message all I did was add the following to
c:\windows\lmhosts:

192.168.1.1 LINUX_SERVER #PRE #DOM:DOMAIN

(change the values to reflect your network settings)

This tells windows that LINUX_SERVER is at the IP 192.168.1.1 and that it
is a member of DOMAIN. I found that once I rebooted windows would log onto
the linux server.

Another solution is to enable WINS on the clients and the samba server.
That allows you to get rid of any lmhosts entries which can be hard to
maintain.

Hope that helps :)

On Sun, Mar 07, 1999 at 10:03:21AM +1100, Andre Paris
wrote:
> Hi,
>   When I try to log onto a Samba server from a windows 98 workstation I 
> get the following error message "No Domain server was available to 
> validate your password.  You may not be able to gain access to some 
> network resources."  Yet when I click OK and bypass this error message
I
> can telnet to the server from the workstation, but I can't browse the 
> Network Neighborhood.  Has anyone ever encountered this problem and 
> what's the solution?
> 
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guys,

 i compiled a samba server on red hat 7.3 and
successfully run it. (attach is log.nmbd which says
that my samba server is the logon server, domain
master browser, local master browser for workgroup
COMPLAB.) 
But when im about to connect a win98 workstation, it
would echo "No domain server was available to validate
your password".  And in my samba server when i issue
the command:
  
  # nmblookup -d 2 "*"

it would answer:

  added interface ip=172.16.0.2 bcast=172.16.255.255
nmask=255.255.0.0
  querying * on 172.16.255.255
  Got a positive name query response from 172.16.0.6
(172.16.0.6)
  172.16.0.6 *<00>

note:
  ip addr of my server (samba) = 172.16.0.2
  ip addr of my win98 ws       = 172.16.0.6
  name of workgroup (smb.conf) = COMPLAB

also, when i issue the command:

  # nmblookup COMPLAB

it echoed:

  querying COMPLAB on 172.16.255.255
  172.16.0.6 COMPLAB<00> 

why? any ideas? Thanks in advance!!!

eric

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> guys,
> 
>  i compiled a samba server on red hat 7.3 and
> successfully run it. (attach is log.nmbd which says
> that my samba server is the logon server, domain
> master browser, local master browser for workgroup
> COMPLAB.) 
> But when im about to connect a win98 workstation, it
> would echo "No domain server was available to
> validate
> your password".  And in my samba server when i issue
> the command:
>   
>   # nmblookup -d 2 "*"
> 
> it would answer:
> 
>   added interface ip=172.16.0.2 bcast=172.16.255.255
> nmask=255.255.0.0
>   querying * on 172.16.255.255
>   Got a positive name query response from 172.16.0.6
> (172.16.0.6)
>   172.16.0.6 *<00>
> 
> note:
>   ip addr of my server (samba) = 172.16.0.2
>   ip addr of my win98 ws       = 172.16.0.6
>   name of workgroup (smb.conf) = COMPLAB
> 
> also, when i issue the command:
> 
>   # nmblookup COMPLAB
> 
> it echoed:
> 
>   querying COMPLAB on 172.16.255.255
>   172.16.0.6 COMPLAB<00> 
> 
> why? any ideas? Thanks in advance!!!
> 
> eric
 


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guys,
i still getting this error eventhough my current setup
is like this:
 Linux samba server: Red Hat 7.3
                     RPM samba installed ver. 2.2.3a
                     hostname: backup.tip.edu.ph
                     smb.conf contains:
                         workgroup = COMPLAB
                         domain master = yes
                         domain logons = yes
                         local master = yes
                         preferred master = yes
                         os level - 255
 Win98 client: configured to log to samba server
 the two computers are connected using a cross cable
UTP.
I tried issuing the ff command in my samba server:
 # smbclient -L backup
which would return:
 Server                 Comment
 ----------             ----------
 BACKUP                 Samba Server
 Workgroup              Master
 ----------             ----------
 COMPLAB                BACKUP
which i think is okay, but when i tried:
 # nmblookup COMPLAB
it would find none, eventhough in my logs it says that
local master browser, domain master and logon server
is my samba server? how could this happen?
eric

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