Topic: Still having windows 2000 problems

[Stuart Carter]

I have still not been able to resolve "Windows 2000 authentication problem" (see earlier post) - please, can anyone help?

[Grub]

Try smbpasswd -a administrator

[Stuart Carter]

[root@server /root]# smbpasswd -a administrator
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
User administrator does not exist in system password file (usually /etc/passwd). Cannot add account without a valid local system user.
Failed to modify password entry for user administrator
[root@server /root]#


.. err... .. what..?!?

[Grub]

I assumed that your user name would be administrator from the win box.
If not, than it could be possible that your username is not added in the smbpasswd file.

[Stuart Carter]

>
> I assumed that your user name would be administrator from the
> win box.

I am logged in to the Windows box as "me", and have re-set my password to be the same in the foo.com and bar.com domains, which didn't work.

The windows box logs in to the foo.com domain, the e-smith box is set up as PDC of the (samba) bar.com domain...Grub wrote:

> If not, than it could be possible that your username is not
> added in the smbpasswd file.

Double checked this too, but all seems ok.

Thanks,

Stuart

[Bob]

Just a thought:
make an account on the e-smith box for the computername of your win2k box. (Windows 2000 works with user accounts as well as computer accounts).

Another thought:
Do you have Netbios over TCP/IP activated on the win2k box?