On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 13:56 +0100, Raik Steuding wrote:> Hello,
>
> we migrate from Samba 2.2 to Samba 3.020b. We have the problem now,
> that some clients can not connect to the Samba Server. In
> the log there are messages like that:
>
> [2006/02/23 08:49:20, 2] smbd/sesssetup.c:setup_new_vc_session(704)
> setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close all
old resources.
> [2006/02/23 08:49:20, 2] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_auth(514)
> smb_pam_auth: PAM: Athentication Error for user raik
> [2006/02/23 08:49:20, 2] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_error_handler(73)
> smb_pam_error_handler: PAM: Authentication Failure : Authentication
failure
> [2006/02/23 08:49:20, 0] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_passcheck(810)
> smb_pam_passcheck: PAM: smb_pam_auth failed - Rejecting User raik !
> [2006/02/23 08:49:20, 2] auth/auth.c:check_ntlm_password(317)
> check_ntlm_password: Authentication for user [raik] -> [raik] FAILED
with error NT_STATUS_WRONG_PASSWORD
> [2006/02/23 08:49:20, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(612)
> Closing connections
>
> At the moment the passwords are unencrypted, but we will switch to
> encrypted passwords with the 'update encrypted' option. We have
this
> problem with different client systems (98, XP, ...).
>
> On "identical" systems the login into the Samba-Server goes
without problems
> (and the same username).
> At the moment we need the unencrypted passwords, because we have here many
> users and the migration from unencrypted passwords to encrypted
> passwords goes not so easy (as the samba experts also know for
> certain).
>
> Can somebody help me, this one I am a bit helpless at the moment.
> I think the problem is the authentication of the wrong working
> clients. the question is why is the authentication wrong and how I can
> change this.
>
> I am grateful for every help.
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by default, samba 3 uses encrypted passwords and you would have to
explicitly turn it off...
encrypted passwords = yes
you probably want to check out the official samba How-To which has other
considerations for migrating from Samba 2 -> 3
http://www.samba/org/samba/docs
Craig