hello * Problem: User authentications fails, error messages see below at end of Info Part Any hints what i should check, what goes astray ? I have to analyse / unterstand a legacy installation and move it to an more recent samba INFO Config Samba: ---------------------------- Config wrt LDAP NO DOMAIN !! [global] netbios name = Kairo server string = ABC Kairo workgroup = kai interfaces = em1 127.0.0.1 bind interfaces only = Yes os level = 65 local master = yes preferred master = yes domain master = yes domain logons = no wins support = yes LDAP PART passdb backend = ldapsam:ldap://localhost ldap delete dn = no ldap passwd sync = yes ldap suffix = l=Kairo,dc=org,o=ABC ldap user suffix = cn=Benutzer ldap group suffix = cn=Gruppen ldap ssl = no ldap admin dn = cn=samba Admin,l=Kairo,dc=org,o=ABC Info "new server" versions / OS Server with the error Message is redhat el 6.2 samba-3.5.10-114.el6.x86_64 samba-winbind-clients-3.5.10-114.el6.x86_64 samba-client-3.5.10-114.el6.x86_64 samba-winbind-3.5.10-114.el6.x86_64 samba-common-3.5.10-114.el6.x86_64 the above is the target server i try to get working Info legacy server samba / OS versions ------------------------------------------------------ SUSE LINUX 10.0 (i586) VERSION = 10.0 samba-doc-3.0.20-4 samba-client-3.0.20b-3.3 samba-3.0.20b-3.3 yast2-samba-client-2.12.4-2 samba-vscan-0.3.6b-4.3 Error Messages: ------------------------ Now the errors from the smb.abc-client.log User adler in passdb, but getpwnam() fails! check_ntlm_password: Authentication for user [adler] -> [adler] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER Got user=[adler] domain=[ABC-164] workstation=[ABC-164] len1=24 len2=24 check_ntlm_password: Checking password for unmapped user [ABC-164][adler]@[ABC-164] with the new password interface check_ntlm_password: mapped user is: [KAIRO][adler]@[ABC-164] init_sam_from_ldap: Entry found for user: adler pdb_get_group_sid: Failed to find Unix account for adler User adler in passdb, but getpwnam() fails! check_ntlm_password: Authentication for user [adler] -> [adler] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER Got user=[adler] domain=[ABC-164] workstation=[ABC-164] len1=24 len2=24 check_ntlm_password: Checking password for unmapped user [ABC-164][adler]@[ABC-164] with the new password interface check_ntlm_password: mapped user is: [KAIRO][adler]@[ABC-164] init_sam_from_ldap: Entry found for user: adler pdb_get_group_sid: Failed to find Unix account for adler User adler in passdb, but getpwnam() fails! check_ntlm_password: Authentication for user [adler] -> [adler] FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER thx for hints micha PS: i'd try to work it out on myself, but i am a bit within a tight time schedule :-)