samba - Nov 2000 - Samba and NT (Logon without giving password again) HELP!

Hello

Is there any People speaks german?
I'm having a serios problem width samba 2.0.6.
It's configured as security = user, and encrypt passwords = no.
The NT4-Workstations have a servicepack 5 installed and the 
registry-patch for plaintextpasswords added.

I have samba configured to authenticate to a NDS Corporate 
edition-server witch is running under RedHat 6.2.

The NDS Client on the Workstations is creating a dynamic local 
user-account whe a User logis into the NDS. Everytime, when the 
loginscript is running, the "net use"-Command asks me again for a
Password.
On Win9x-Machines is no problem with this.

Can somebody help me? I'm really distraught.

Roland Kaeser

Hello

Is that really true? Than i can forget my hole project. Later this 
night, i hat an other idea: Can i say samba it should send the user 
authentication to an other one (samba) to check it? (security = server, 
password server = SAMBA-SERVER) or will this give the same results?

Roland

Herb Lewis wrote:
> Unfortunatley I don't speak German but what you see is
> the standard way NT works when using plain-text passwords.
> The only way to stop it asking for the password again is
> to run encrypted passwords.
> 
> Roland Kaeser wrote:
> 
>> Hello
>> 
>> Is there any People speaks german?
>> I'm having a serios problem width samba 2.0.6.
>> It's configured as security = user, and encrypt passwords = no.
>> The NT4-Workstations have a servicepack 5 installed and the
>> registry-patch for plaintextpasswords added.
>> 
>> I have samba configured to authenticate to a NDS Corporate
>> edition-server witch is running under RedHat 6.2.
>> 
>> The NDS Client on the Workstations is creating a dynamic local
>> user-account whe a User logis into the NDS. Everytime, when the
>> loginscript is running, the "net use"-Command asks me again
for a Password.
>> On Win9x-Machines is no problem with this.
>> 
>> Can somebody help me? I'm really distraught.
>> 
>> Roland Kaeser

Hallo Roland,
I just make a guess here, but typically when you are asked for 
a password at every net use (that is, when you actually try to 
access a resource on a server), it means that the password for the user is
either wrong, or was not cached by the client initially.
I've never heard of this NDS client for WinNT, but I suggest that 
understanding how it works may be where you want to focus your efforts.  You
can get a better idea of what is happening (ie if the 
password or username, etc is being rejected 1st time by samba) by
turning on log level = 10  and log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m
in your smb.conf file, and looking for the username that your user is
sending, and checking for problems or retries in the log file.
Sorry, perhaps someone else on the list knows about the NDS client and can
help,
Don
-----Original Message-----
From: Roland Kaeser [mailto:roland.kaeser@intersoft-networks.ch]
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 7:00 PM
To: samba@lists.samba.org
Subject: Samba and NT (Logon without giving password again) HELP!


Hello

Is there any People speaks german?
I'm having a serios problem width samba 2.0.6.
It's configured as security = user, and encrypt passwords = no.
The NT4-Workstations have a servicepack 5 installed and the 
registry-patch for plaintextpasswords added.

I have samba configured to authenticate to a NDS Corporate 
edition-server witch is running under RedHat 6.2.

The NDS Client on the Workstations is creating a dynamic local 
user-account whe a User logis into the NDS. Everytime, when the 
loginscript is running, the "net use"-Command asks me again for a
Password.
On Win9x-Machines is no problem with this.

Can somebody help me? I'm really distraught.

Roland Kaeser

Hallo Herb

Thanks a lot. I cannot use encrypted passworts because, samba needs to 
autenticate the logon-user via PAM to the NDS-Server. Is there any way 
to disable this second question for the Password? The other one is: In 
the Login-Script are up to 10 commands for connecting any drives. But it
asks me only when the first command connects a share. The others running
correctly.

Herb Lewis wrote:
> When NT asks for the password the message is misleading. If you are
> in plain-text password mode, it is actually saying "Do you REALLY
> want me to send the password in plain text?" If you change to 
> encrypted passwords this prompt will go away. If you have an NT
> PDC you might want to run in "security=domain" mode and take a
look
> at the "add user script" parameter in smb.conf.
> 
> Roland Kaeser wrote:
> 
>> Hello
>> 
>> Is that really true? Than i can forget my hole project. Later this
>> night, i hat an other idea: Can i say samba it should send the user
>> authentication to an other one (samba) to check it? (security = server,
>> password server = SAMBA-SERVER) or will this give the same results?
>> 
>> Roland
>>