Alan Jones wrote: > > Hi, > > We have some special weirdness happening with Samba and windows XP here. > > Background: > > We are wanting to install a third party product passlogix, V-GO single > sign on product on windows > (http://www.passlogix.com), which authenticates against a windows > server. Basically it uses the windows > Authentication to allow the decryption of a credential database, to > allow automatic signing on to many > Applications. It allows a user only to have to remember a single > password, and then sign on to multiple > Applications. Great appplication. Useful for medicos, who otherwise have > to remember 10 passwords that roll each month > Etc. > > Anyway. To cut a long story short. We have tried this on 2.2.5 and 2.2.2 > and the same thing happens. Anyway. > > We install the product on W2K and it works and on WINXP (against the > same samba server and she broke). > > The product requires the user to re-authenticate prior to decrypting the > credential database.
This is after the domain logon? And how does it do that? > When we use *DISCONNECT* the WINXP box from the network (using winXP) > cached credentials, ie no samba > Authentication it works like a treat. ONLY when Samba is queried she > broke. Hmm - I'm assuming this is using a domain logon. It could be somthing to do with session keys, or other such fun. > We can provide a copy of the passlogix product if people are keen to > help. > > Seems like the WinXP is doing things differently. WinXP does a few things differently. :-( > Now I should point out that WINXP, authenticates against the samba > server as part of the windows login PERFECTLY. > So as far as windows is concerned everything is nice with samba, only > this third party product, which WE HAVE > To RUN is broken. All help is gladly appreciated. I don't want to have > to install active directory.!!!! This looks very interesting - I'll need a lot more detail before I can be much use unfortuntly. But given sufficnet traces, we should be able to track this down... Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Authentication Subsystems, Samba Team [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student Network Administrator, Hawker College [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org http://build.samba.org http://hawkerc.net