On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 06:50, Robert Rati wrote: > I have a Samba 3.0 PDC using LDAP as it's password database backend, but > I can't get a user to log on to a Win2k machine on the domain. In the > log file for the PC (on the Samba machine), I see that the user is found > in the LDAP backend but that getpwnam failed. The username does not > exist on the Linux machine in any form.
Samba *requires* that the username exist on the server, via nsswtich, as a normal user. You cannot have users in Samba which are not in /etc/passwd or it's nsswitch'ed equivalent (nss_ldap etc). Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net
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