Thank you much David, your temporary solution worked fine. I had to disable encrypted passwords though, otherwise "NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE"
Thanks again. Hopefully Jeremy will come up with the fix soon. -- Regards, Veselin Campbell-Lange Workshop www.campbell-lange.net 0207 6311 555 3 Tottenham Street London W1T 2AF Registered in England No. 04551928 On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:15:51PM -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > Veselin Kantsev wrote: >> Thank you much Jeremy, >> >> Do you know of some temporary workaround that I can use for the time being? >> >> Regards, >> > Veselin, > > The simplest way would be to download a copy of the 3.0.24 that you > know > will work and install that on the 3.2.3 machine. You don't need to remove > 3.2.3, you can simply install 2.0.24 in the default location of > /usr/local/samba. You are probably safe with 3.0.31. Just download the > tarball at: > > http://us3.samba.org/samba/ftp/samba-3.0.31.tar.gz > > If you need 3.0.24: > > http://us1.samba.org/samba/ftp/old-versions/samba-3.0.24.tar.gz > > Then simply: > > (1) tar -xzf samba-3.0.24.tar.gz # untar the source > (2) cd samba-3.0.24/src # change to the src directory > (3) ./configure # default install in > /usr/local/samba > ** install any missing packages (gcc, etc..) > (4) make > (5) make install > > ** now figure out where your smb.conf and smbpasswd files are stored and > where you want you log files. (Usually /etc/samba/ and /var/log) Assumed > in step (7) > > ** make sure you stop 3.2.3 (smbd and nmbd), change to the > /usr/local/samba/bin directory then start your new version of each: > > (6) cd /usr/local/samba/bin # new executable location > > (7)(a) ./nmbd --daemon --configfile=/etc/samba/smb.conf > --log-basename=log.nmb.test > > (7)(b) ./smbd --daemon --configfile=/etc/samba/smb.conf --log-basename > log.smb.test --smb-passwd-file=/etc/samba/smbpasswd > --private-dir=/etc/samba > > If disaster strikes and everything goes bad, not to worry, simply issue > the command > > (8) make revert # Restores original 3.2.3 > binaries > #+if they were overwritten > > > That's it. Takes about 20 minutes total. Your new self-compiled samba > will run just fine until Jeremy is done looking at the problem. It is > always good to have this work-around in your hip-pocket just in case a > 'new feature' is introduced in the latest release ;-) > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. > Rankin Law Firm, PLLC > 510 Ochiltree Street > Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 > Telephone: (936) 715-9333 > Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 > www.rankinlawfirm.com > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba