samba - Aug 2009 - Win98 client can't connect after Samba upgrade

Hi All,  I was running Samba 2.2 as a PDC for a small office server for several
years.  Hardware was getting old enough I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to
Samba 3.3.4 on FreeBSD 7.2 and a new box.

The smbpasswd file and all that stuff was copied from the old box.  Clients are
Win2000 and XP Professional, and for the most part were back up and connected,
practically unaware of the switch over.

After a couple of weeks of thinking "that was too easy" I got a call
that one PC wasn't working.  It's an old Windows 98 pc only used
occasionally.  I tried recreating the machine account for it, and rejoining the
domain, to no avail.  Any suggestions where to start with this one?

-RW

smb23wc at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi All,  I was running Samba 2.2 as a PDC for a small office server for 
> several years.  Hardware was getting old enough I finally bit the bullet 
> and upgraded to Samba 3.3.4 on FreeBSD 7.2 and a new box.
> 
> The smbpasswd file and all that stuff was copied from the old box.  
> Clients are Win2000 and XP Professional, and for the most part were back 
> up and connected, practically unaware of the switch over.
> 
> After a couple of weeks of thinking "that was too easy" I got a
call
> that one PC wasn't working.  It's an old Windows 98 pc only used 
> occasionally.  I tried recreating the machine account for it, and 
> rejoining the domain, to no avail.  Any suggestions where to start with 
> this one?
> 
> -RW
You need to add:

lanman auth = yes

The default value was changed from "yes" to "no" in recent
versions.

HTH,

Deyan

-- 
Deyan Stoykov, dstoykov at ru.acad.bg
University of Rousse, BG-7017

Deyan Stoykov wrote:
> smb23wc at gmail.com wrote:
>> bullet and upgraded to Samba 3.3.4 on FreeBSD 7.2 and a new box.
>> After a couple of weeks of thinking "that was too easy" I got
a call
>> that one PC wasn't working.  It's an old Windows 98 pc only
used
>> occasionally.  I tried recreating the machine account for it, and 
>> rejoining the domain, to no avail.  Any suggestions where to start 
> 
> You need to add:
> 
> lanman auth = yes
> 
> The default value was changed from "yes" to "no" in
recent versions.
Thanks, Deyan.  Added that tweak;  no doubt it's part of the puzzle.  I also
remembered the old registry hack with old Samba versions, and found this PC had
the reg flag set to use plain-text passwords;  undid that one, but still no go. 
Any other suggestions?  [other than scrap the old clunker?  ;) ]

-Rob W