RE: [uug] Samba question

Wed, 19 May 2004 09:59:35 -0700

Well it appears to be allowing me to reach the samba server using //servername now. But it still won't let me do an nmblookup or nbtstat -a and find the server name. I have put the command "wins support = yes" on the linux server that can't be seen via nmblookup and it appears now in the wins.dat file of the pdc / wins server. The windows boxes must be using the wins server to resolve the name now? However when I do try to connect via //servername from windows 2000 box it will bring up a user name password box, I can just hit ok without filling anything out and it will allow me to connect to the share( I would rather not have to do that). Plus when I do an smbclient -L on the samba server it says it is master. When I do an smbclient -L on the pdc it says it is master. Would this cause some problems? The samba server isn't set up to be the master, i have all master stuff = no.

One other problem I have is when I try to reset the password from the windows 2000 box it says I don't have permission to change it. When I try to login as the user and do an smbpasswd user it gives me this error:

machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : RAP86: The specified password is invalid.

I have looked up this error in google and everyone gets the same error but no one seems to have figured it out. That was a lot of stuff to talk about, but any help on this would be great!!! In the mean time I will be reading that samba manual!!

Tony




From: Lars Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: BYU Unix Users Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 'BYU Unix Users Group' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [uug] Samba question
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 23:31:30 -0600

Scott is right, especially if you're on a large network or one that
already has a WINS server.

If you're not, I'd say set your Samba box to be the WINS server - it'll
do a better job than a windows box in many cases.

Let us know your results.

Lars

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Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2004 7:47 PM
To: BYU Unix Users Group
Subject: Re: [uug] Samba question


On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 07:34:59PM -0600, Lars Rasmussen wrote:
> wins support = yes
>

wins support is, like a number of smb.conf options, misleading. wins
support will make that machine the wins server. The option you need is
'wins server = wins.example.com' and ensure that 'name resolve order' is
set right for your setup (in my case '= wins lmhosts bcast'). Also if
your machine is part of the domain don't forget to set the security as
'domain'.

Other things to try: remote announce = wins.example.com

http://us1.samba.org/samba/docs/man/howto/

A wealth of knowledge right there.

Hope that helps.

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Scott Paul Robertson
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