I've seen this happen when the smbpasswd file and /etc/passwd weren't in
sync. For whatever reason, samba doesn't like it and errors out when
the clients try to get lists.
Juhan Kundla wrote:>
> Hei!
>
> After countless frustrating hours of reading manpages, searching google
> and staring at my smb.conf i have given up and now spamming this mailing
> list with stupid questions.
>
> I have a Samba PDC and several Windows 9x clients. Those Windows boxes
> use user level access control and the Samba server handles the
> authentication of users. Everything works fine besides one thing --
> those windows clients cannot share anything. For example, when i try to
> share the c: drive on one of those Windows boxes, i get the following
> error, when trying to add users to the access control list of that share:
>
> you cannot view the list of users at this time. please try again later.
>
> Clearly, the windows machine cannot get the list of users/groups from
> Samba PDC and i don't have a clue, why this is so.
>
> My Samba server has the following configuration:
>
> juhan@galadriel:~$ /usr/sbin/smbd -V
> Version 2.2.3a-6 for Debian
> juhan@galadriel:~$ uname -a
> Linux galadriel 2.4.18-bf2.4 #1 Sam M?r 30 00:56:06 CET 2002 i586 unknown
>
> The global section of my smb.conf
>
> [global]
> netbios name = GALADRIEL
> workgroup = ARNOR
> server string = Samba server %v (%h)
> log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
> max log size = 1000
> syslog = 0
> os level = 255
> local master = yes
> preferred master = yes
> domain master = yes
> security = user
> encrypt passwords = yes
> invalid users = root
> smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd
> domain logons = yes
> logon home = \\galadriel\%U
> logon script = %U.bat
> wins support = true
> name resolve order = wins lmhosts hosts bcast
> dns proxy = no
> unix password sync = yes
> passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
> passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n
*Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n .
>
> TIA,
> Juhan
>
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>
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