[ale] Samba configuration
Brubakken, Eric
eric.brubakken at SouthernEnergy.Com
Wed Jun 2 11:32:34 EDT 1999
I am having problems connecting to my server using Samba. Every time I try
to connect through Network Neighborhood I get an invalid password error.Â
Listed below are some of the things I have done to try to correct this
problem. If anyone has some ideas on this I would really appreicate it.
* I created the smbpasswd file with:Â Â Â cat /etc/passwd |
makesmbpasswd.sh > /etc/smbpasswd
* Here is a sample of the file
oracle:502:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
:Oracle Administrator:/home/oracle:/bin/bash
* Dumb question here -Do I need to put my unencrypted password in the
smbpasswd file? If so which set of Xs do I replace
* I modified the smb.conf as follows
              in the [global] area
                   security = user
                   encrypt passwords = yes
                   smb passwd file = /etc/smbpasswd
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* I have run testparm smb.conf and did not get any errors
* I have also set up LMHOSTS file in my C:\Windows directory which
points to a central CLMHOSTS file on the server
                   LMHOSTS on the Win98 machine
                   # client LMHOSTS file
                   10.0.2.15   dbserver   #PRE
                   #INCLUDE   \\DBSERVER\etc\CLMHOSTS
<file://DBSERVER/etc/CLMHOSTS>
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                   CLMHOSTS file on the server
                   10.0.2.20   desktop_1
                   10.0.2.50   desktop_2
* Do I need to have entries in the DNS/WINS for my Win98 machine?
* What about NIS - could this be a problem?
* I can ping boxes left an right - everything seems ok on that end. I
am able to talk to Oracle from my Win98 boxes, using SQLPlus or through
PowerBuilder. I can connect through telnet just fine.
* When I run the following
                          smbclient -L dbserver -U oracle -N
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                               I get this as an error - 'Bad password -
name/password pair in Tree Connect....'
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At this point I am at a complete loss and have run out of ideas. This isn't
rocket science, but I'm sure making it look that way.
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Thanks for all your time.....
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Eric
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