Topic: Status for Samba XP clients for SME 6.0.1, 6.5 and 7.0 ?!

[cosy]

HI Arne,
 
  What i did exactly same. Download & run that reg file from
 http:\\server\server-resources\regedit

  Can you able to joing any XP to your SME7 B4?

[arne]

Sorry - I do not have the oportunity to test out now. All my network servers and Workstations are set up to test out Asterisk telephone server. Actually I have not tested sme 7.0 as a domain controller. (But as a work group file server, and that worked ok.)

[cosy]

hi Arne,

 It's OK. I think i'll map all the network drive using local logon Script.

 I just try with SME 6.0.1 domain, all working fine.
i think this SME 7.0 B4 may need some modifications.

[dhardy]

Cosy,

What is the exact error message you get when trying to join the XP client to the domain?

If it is an authentication error it may be something to do with the root/admin user and samba.

Have you installed any samba contribs? - the advanced workgroup contrib buggered things up for me on 6.01 .....

David.

[cosy]

HI,

 It's a fresh install of SME7 B4. I didn't install anything. Ther error msg was unknown user name or bad password.

[jumba]

...just would like to confirm that I face the same experience as Cosy.

Ther error msg is "unknown user name or bad password"

...and yes, I tried with "admin" as well as "root", - same shit.

I also tried to create a user group with the describtion "Domain Admins" as mentioned earlier on Contribs.org, but same error...

Just a thought:

Since I test with Swedish version of XP, would there be any connections to the name of the local XP Administrator account?

(Of course, this account name differs from one language edition to another in XP   )

[dhardy]

This sounds to me like the root user is not properly linked to a samba account.

This post http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=16336.msg63165#msg63165 worked for me with SME6.01-Plus and the advanced workgroup contrib when all else failed ....

Anyway, I have found that adding a root samba user with the same password as your linux root account allows things to work better.

Add root user:

At root command line type: smbpasswd -a root
Enter your root password twice.

To make sure account is enabled: smbpasswd -e root

I'm guessing that the root samba user is not enabled ... if anyone can confirm this as a bug in 7b4 then please submit it to the bug tracker at sourceforge as per the stickies on the forums.

 (My 7b2 box has been sacrificed to be a testbed for sync4j on W2K - http://www.sync4j.org - or I'd have a crack at it myself).

HTH

David.

[fritzferr]

Hey all,

I've been running 7.1 with XP with no problem.  I recently started testing Longhorn with the same problems listed above.  I've done all the things listed as well, including regedit fix from the resources page, manually adjusting the registry, and doing the snbpasswd.  So far I just get the darn bad password or login.  Please help.  Very frustrated.

I just updated the server to 7.4 with some hope, but the same thing occurred.

F

[jumba]

Hello everybody!

Maybe I've found an explanation for the behavour described above (not being able to join a domain):

I used to have a very LONG password for admin/root, - something like 19 characters long.

In that situation, I vas totally unable to add a new machine account on the server from an XP-box ("join a domain")

As soon as I changed that password to a shorter one (6 characters right now") the "domain joining" suddenly started to work again....

It should be very interesting to learn from the other people with the same problem how long passwords you were using, and if there might be a (hidden) limit of the number of characters (Maybe it has to do with smbpassword, I'm not an expert here)

[jumba]

Hello again!

I've just confirmed with an experienced NT-technican that the number of characters in an SMB passord is supposed to be 15 or 16.

So my theory seems to be true, - I used 19 characters and it just didn-t work!

I don't know if this is supposed to be considered as a "bug", but shouldn't it be better to implement a maximum limit of the number of SMB passwords in SME-server???

What do you think, friends?