[ILUG] Win2k Joining Samba PDC

[Philip Reynolds]

Michael Field's [mfield at altavista.net] 34 lines of wisdom included:
> I think I got the same error myself, a few weeks ago, while trying to get a W2k
> box to join a Samba PDC'd domain and the problem had to do with the name of
> the workgroup in which the W2k box previously resided. Don't know whether this
> is Samba specific or an issue whenever a W2k box joins any domain but you'll
> get an error if you try to join a domain with a Samba PDC if the name (of the
> domain) is the same as the name of the workgroup to which the machine previously
> belonged. (Soln: Change name of workgroup to something else and then join the
> domain)

This is already done. 
After messing around with the source, and sending some debug
messages to the logs, I'm ending up with Samba thinking the password
the Win2k machine sends is "" (i.e. blank)
Machine name is added to the machine, I have applied the patch for
Windows 2000 (which basically turns encryption off) and still no
joy.
I am still getting a username/password error when I try to login as
root and the passwords are fine. 

I'm actually using FreeBSD and I thought it might have been
something to do with the ttys (they were insecure which means root
can't login by default, and I changed them to secure. Root can now
login fine however this hasn't solved the problem.)

I can get to a login prompt fine, however the username and password
combination fails, log files goes something like this:

[2001/09/12 20:11:54, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_special(93)
  netbios connect: name1=REALM            name2=SUNRISE
[2001/09/12 20:11:54, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_special(112)
  netbios connect: local=realm remote=sunrise
[2001/09/12 20:11:54, 2] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(990)
  Defaulting to Lanman password for root
[2001/09/12 20:11:54, 1] smbd/reply.c:reply_sesssetup_and_X(1005)
  Password user entered was: ''Rejecting user '': authentication
failed: reply_sesssetup_and_X
[2001/09/12 20:11:54, 2] smbd/server.c:exit_server(448)
  Closing connections

Any chance of getting your smb.conf file off you offlist.

Phil.