Hi, Before to tune Samba, do you have created the computer account in your nt domain ;-)
>Hello! > >I have a samba fileserver (Debian Woody, Samba 2.2.3a) that I am >trying to join into an NT domain (smbpasswd -j ...); the command says that >it joined the domain successfully. > >Then I setup security=domain, workgroup name etc. as outlined in the samba >howtos. However whenever I try to access a share on the Samba server I am >prompted for a password (even though I already logged in through the >domain controller) and am subsequently denied access. > >The logfiles on the fileserver contain the following on the failed mount >attempt: > >[2002/09/26 18:53:28, 0] rpc_client/cli_netlogon.c:cli_net_req_chal(246) > cli_net_req_chal: Error NT_STATUS_INVALID_COMPUTER_NAME >[2002/09/26 18:53:28, 0] rpc_client/cli_login.c:cli_nt_setup_creds(48) > cli_nt_setup_creds: request challenge failed >[2002/09/26 18:53:28, 0] >smbd/password.c:connect_to_domain_password_server(1336) > connect_to_domain_password_server: unable to setup the PDC credentials >to machine ADLER.INFORMATIK.TU-FREIBERG.DE. Error was : NT_STATUS_OK. >[2002/09/26 18:53:28, 0] smbd/password.c:domain_client_validate(1554) > domain_client_validate: Domain password server not available. >[2002/09/26 18:53:28, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwnam(1367) > unable to open passdb database. >[2002/09/26 18:53:28, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwnam(1367) > unable to open passdb database. > >I don't know what to make of this -- does someone have any suggestion on >what went wrong? I am rather green on this. > >Things that may be notable to our setup: >- Samba server and PDC live in different IP domains and different IP >subnets >- I had to manually insert the machine name of the PDC in the smb.conf >file; putting in "*" to let Samba find out the PDC on it's own results >in "Domain password server not available" message in the logfiles > >Thanks for your patience. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba