Greetings, First, I want to clarify That I am a unix systems person in a mostly unix shop and this windows stuff is voodoo to me. I have successfully set up several Windows 98 systems that use samba for all the user login authentication, roaming profiles, and the whole works. It seems to work well. One passwd for both unix and Windows logins. The Samba team has done a great job in coding and documentation. ...most of what I know about Windows comes from Samba documentation :-} We just got an NT machine and I am trying to figure out how to do the same thing with it. That is, when a user logs in, I would like it to query the samba server for the password. I just can't seem to figure out how to do this. I suspect that I am going to have to manually create and setup each user individually on the NT machine, but I just can't figure out how to make it do the user authentication stuff off the samba server. Thanks for any help on this. -- Steven.
Hi. I am new to the list so please forgive my stupid questions about SAMBA. For information, I work in a university in France as a network engineer. I installed the SAMBA server on a FreeBSD 4.0 machine. The server works well. The problem is that I cannot authenticate the users when they try and connect from an NT workstation (SP6a). SAMBA server is in a NT domain (DUMMY_DOMAIN). The machine account has been created within the domain. SMBPASSWD has been used with -j option to join the domain. The NT PDC is called DUMMY_PDC. In smb.conf password server was set to DUMMY_PDC (and DUMMY_BDC). With either security = server or domain users cannot authenticate from an NT workstation. It DOES work from another UNIX client using SMBCLIENT. In the log file the error says : NT_STATUS_WRONG_PASSWORD Of course I type the right password ;-) Once again, it does work from another UNIX client using the same authentication method. ??? Can anybody help me? The NT PDC is an NT4 server with SP6a. Is there a problem with MSCHAP, CHAP or PAP authentication method ? Thanks. Christophe