We had winbind running great, but suddenly we were getting this GUI that said:
Incorrect password or unknown Username for :
\\hostname
Connect as: (rectangle to enter username )
Password: (rectangle to enter password)
Wbinfo showed that I was talking to the domain controller successfully, but I could not get onto the samba shares.
I finally isolated that this happens after I have stopped and started winbind on my Irix system. I'm not sure the exact sequence, but I believe I had stopped winbind and had forgotten to restart it before I started testing my samba share access.
My theory is that the problem with winbind not running causes my nameservice to hence ignore using winbind for name lookup. A reboot would clear this up, but on Irix, you can re-run
nsadmin restart
To tell your name services to use winbind. The reason you never can get logged in, even if you give a correct NT username and password, is that your UNIX back-end is never using the winbind piece of nsswitch, so all authentication being passed by the PC is encrypted, but UNIX is expecting clear text, thus you will never be able to login via this window if your UNIX system has stopped using winbind.
Hope this helps someone.
Karen Wieprecht
