On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 17:09, Paul Cabot wrote:
> According to the documentation on setting up Samba to be a PDC.  It says 
> that you have to enable encrypted passwords for it to work!
> 
> Now for Samba with PAM to work the documentation says that you can't 
> have encrypted passwords enabled!

Correct, for authentication.  The 'obey pam restrictions' is about
'account' and 'session' properties like 'expired' and 'too many users'.

> So does that mean that I can't set up Samba has a PDC and use PAM to 
> authenticate the users!

Yes.

> Reason I ask is I did have Samba set up as a PDC with 3 windows client 
> computers, 2 with Windows 2000, one with Windows XP!
> 
> I then deciced to try and use PAM so I went into the registry of the 3 
> clients and set it to enableplaintextpasswords = 1

This won't affect domain logons from NT or above

> And I set Samba to plain text passwords and to obey pam restrictions!
> 
> Pam now works Ie if I change the password with smbpasswd the unix 
> password is changed as well!
> 
> But the problem I'm having is!
> 
> When a I logon to the domain, My username and Password are excepted but 
> then I get a message on windows saying that it couldn't access my 
> profile and will use a local profile, also it mentions that the username 
> and password might not be correct!  Once I have the windows desktop I 
> can't access my home network drive (The one that you set Samba to), but 
> if I go into the network area and access the domain there and then 
> access the server it asks for my username and password and voila it 
> works I can access the profiles and home shares!

If you have your passwords in smbpasswd, then just set 'encrypt
passwords = yes' and by happy.

> Here is my smb.conf file
> 
> [global]
>       workgroup = DOMAIN
>       netbios name = CABOTP
>       server string = Samba Server %v %h
>       obey pam restrictions = Yes
>       passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>       passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n 
> *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
>       username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
>       unix password sync = Yes
>       log level = 1
>       log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
>       max log size = 50
>       time server = Yes
>       printcap name = lpstat
>       logon script = %U.vbs
>       logon path = \\%L\Profiles\%U
>       logon drive = Z:
>       logon home = \\%L\%U
>       domain logons = Yes
>       os level = 64
>       preferred master = Yes
>       domain master = Yes
>       wins support = Yes
>       hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/24, 127.0.0.1
>       printing = lprng
> 
> [homes]
>       comment = Home Directories
>       valid users = %S
>       admin users = root,paul
>       read only = No
>       create mask = 0664
>       directory mask = 0775
>       strict allocate = Yes
>       strict locking = Yes
> 
> [netlogon]
>       comment = Network Logon Service
>       path = /var/spool/samba/netlogon
>       write list = root
> 
> [Profiles]
>       path = /var/spool/samba/profiles
>       read only = No
>       csc policy = disable
> 
> 
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