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Title: Still having windows 2000 problems
Post by: Stuart Carter on June 19, 2002, 01:37:59 AM

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

Title: Re: Still having windows 2000 problems
Post by: Grub on June 19, 2002, 08:45:03 PM

Try smbpasswd -a administrator

Title: Re: Still having windows 2000 problems
Post by: Stuart Carter on June 19, 2002, 10:22:07 PM

[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..?!?

Title: Re: Still having windows 2000 problems
Post by: Grub on June 20, 2002, 12:12:59 AM

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.

Title: Re: Still having windows 2000 problems
Post by: Stuart Carter on June 20, 2002, 01:16:54 AM

>
> 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

Title: Re: Still having windows 2000 problems
Post by: Bob on June 21, 2002, 02:52:16 AM

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?