On 11/17/05, Andrew Bartlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 13:11 +0800, Vincente Aggrippino wrote: > > I'm sorry for asking a question which has been asked so many times > > before, but I can't seem to find the answer... > > > > How do I get to access my home directory on a Linux server running > > Samba from a Windows XP client? > > > > I'm getting "NT MD4 password check failed" in the log file even though > > the Windows client is listed in hosts.equiv. More information > > below... > > > Neither of our accounts on the Windows XP clients have passwords. We > > just use the Welcome screen and click on our names. So, I have added > > the host names to /etc/hosts.equiv and added hosts equiv = > > /etc/hosts.equiv to smb.conf so that, when the client tries to connect > > to the server it shouldn't need to provide a password to go with the > > username. This is the part that doesn't seem to be working: > > hosts.equiv isn't really supported in Samba3. I removed the main option > in the smb.conf, and hid the functionality in an auth module that nobody > used (I know, because nobody reported the segfault bug in it...). > > > [2005/11/17 11:37:29, 9] passdb/passdb.c:pdb_update_autolock_flag(2333) > > pdb_update_autolock_flag: Account vince not autolocked, no check needed > > [2005/11/17 11:37:29, 4] libsmb/ntlm_check.c:ntlm_password_check(326) > > ntlm_password_check: Checking NT MD4 password > > [2005/11/17 11:37:29, 3] libsmb/ntlm_check.c:ntlm_password_check(344) > > ntlm_password_check: NT MD4 password check failed for user vince > > > > > > Does anyone know the solution to this problem? > > Seting a null password on the accounts should do what you want. That did the trick :)
I guess it's kind of insecure, but it's a closed network in my home. So, all is well. It didn't occur to me that I could set a null password, but I guess root can do all kinds of things that I'm not supposed to do. > > Andrew Bartlett > > -- > Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ > Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org > Student Network Administrator, Hawker College http://hawkerc.net > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBDfGmiz4A8Wyi0NrsRAvX7AJ9NsmxeM6/9Nx/EV22+YFssIVmcJACdGdkn > nY5hHTkTh/1BWnl+2/S3gb0= > =5889 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- In trying to figure this out, I saw the question asked many times, but I never found the answer. So, for the record, here's what I needed to do per Andrew's recommendation... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> su - Password: home:~ # passwd vince Changing password for vince. New Password: <just press enter> Bad password: too short Reenter New Password: <just press enter again> Password changed. home:~ # smbpasswd vince New SMB password: <just press enter> Retype new SMB password: <just press enter again> Thank you very much :) -- Vince -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
