[ale] samba 2.2 and win9x clients - SOLVED

[Gary MacKay]

Well, I really hate replying to my own messages, but I wanted to let
everyone know I resolved the issue. Took lots of digging, but I found a
samba newsgroup that had the answer. The PAM support is broken in the
new samba 2.2 version. You have to change (Redhat anyway) the
/etc/pam.d/samba file.

Change any "account" lines to
account	sufficient	pam_permit.so

- Gary


Gary MacKay wrote:
> 
> Nope. This was a fully functional network for two years. I have
> "encrypted" turned on in smb.conf and the Win9x clients are logging into
> samba just fine. Their individual scripts run, drives map, etc.,
> everything works except the Win9x clients being able to access the nt4
> shares. They used to be able to before the upgrade of samba.
> 
> Thanks anyway,
> 
> - Gary
> 
> Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> >
> > Gary -
> >
> > Check your encrypted passwords setting in smb.conf and the encrypted
> > passwords status of your various Win machines.  NT4 SP3 and above
> > encrypts, Win95 generally does not (but might past a certain revision),
> > Win98 generally does.
> >
> > - Jeff
> >
> > Gary MacKay wrote:
> > >
> > > Setup:
> > > linux box running samba (2.0.18 upgraded to 2.2)
> > >     (samba box doing it's best to imitate a pdc)
> > > nt4 server (not a pdc or bdc, just plain server)
> > > nt4 workstation
> > > win9x workstation
> > >
> > > While running the older samba, the win9x box could log into the domain
> > > and access shares on the samba box and the nt4 server box. Since
> > > upgrading samba, users on the win9x boxes can still log into the domain,
> > > scripts run, etc. just fine. However, they can not access anything on
> > > the nt4 server now. The /var/log/messages shows an error each time:
> > > May  5 17:50:05 smtp PAM_unix[17223]: could not identify user (from
> > > getpwnam(GARY))
> > >
> > > The only thing I can see wrong is the username is in all caps.
> > >
> > > Observances:
> > > Each user can log into the domain fine from the nt4 server console.
> > > NT4 workstation can access NT4 server shares fine regardless of user.
> > >
> > > - Gary
> > >
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