have you created the new user accounts in Unix and also in smbpasswd ? Mike
----- Original Message ----- From: "Carolyn Mayr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 15, 2002 3:21 PM Subject: [Samba] Samba "unable to validate password" error > I sent the following to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'm also forwarding > this to the samba list. I hope you can help: > > ------------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------- > I have an emergency and am at the end of my resources and hope you can help. > I'm a samba newbie and hope you can point me to an answer. > > Our Samba2.0.5 server is a Sun Enterprise 450 (Solaris 7). Our PDC > is an NT machine called warrior. The warrior is the smbpasswd server > and the domain is CSDEPARTMENT. > > We've been running samba for the past 2 years with no problem. Now we > are seeing a problem with new users in the CSDEPARTMENT domain when a > user tries to log in from their PC to our samba server: > > [2002/11/15 07:53:51, 0] smbd/password.c:(1470) > domain_client_validate: unable to validate password for user velazque in > domain CSDEPARTMENT to Domain controller WARRIOR. Error was code 0. > [2002/11/15 07:53:51, 1] smbd/password.c:(500) > Couldn't find user 'velazque' in smb_passwd file. > [2002/11/15 07:53:51, 1] smbd/password.c:(500) > Couldn't find user 'velazque' in smb_passwd file. > [2002/11/15 07:53:51, 1] smbd/reply.c:(925) > Rejecting user 'velazque': authentication failed > [2002/11/15 07:53:51, 1] smbd/server.c:(641) > smbd version 2.0.7 started. > > > I don't know what is causing this. I reviewed my smb.conf file using the > Samba Unleashed book and according to the book, it's correct. > > I thought maybe the problem was with the PDC credentials so I tried this: > > #/opt/samba/bin/smbpasswd -j CSDEPARTMENT -r warrior > > cli_net_auth2: Error NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED > cli_nt_setup_creds: auth2 challenge failed > modify_trust_password: unable to setup the PDC credentials to machine > WARRIOR. Error was : NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED. > 2002/11/15 09:34:55 : change_trust_account_password: Failed to change > password for domain CSDEPARTMENT. > Unable to join domain CSDEPARTMENT. > > Could this be why I'm having the user validation problem? BTW, we do have > an /etc/opt/samba/private directory with some old files: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40 Aug 17 2000 MACHINE.SID > -rw------- 1 root root 127 Apr 30 2001 smbpasswd > -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 25 Aug 18 2000 smbpasswd.junk > > > Please help!!!! > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- = > Carolyn A. Mayr (UNIX System Administrator) Voice: (410) 293-6808 (sec-6800) > Computer Science Department, DivMath&Sci Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 572 Holloway Road, Chauvenet Hall, Stop 9F FAX: (410) 293-2686 > U.S. Naval Academy WWW: http://www.cs.usna.edu > Annapolis, MD 21402-5002 USNA: (410) 293-1000 > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- = > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba