Hello samba mailing list,

I'm using samba 3.0.24 on a home server running Debian etch. The server handles authentication and provides samba file shares for a small home network of Linux machines. I recently changed basic login authentication from NIS to kerberos/ldap for the clients. I then decided to switch samba over on the server to use the new ldap authentication backend.

The [global] section of smb.conf looks like this:
============
[global]
       workgroup = PHILLIPS.ORG
       dns proxy = No
       username map = /etc/samba/user.map
# The whole objective of using ldap was to set this true;
# but it seems to cause samba to choke.  Is ldap ssl
# required if this is set true?  Doesn't seem likely.
# http://www.unav.es/cti/ldap-smb/ldap-smb-2_2-howto.html#smb.conf
# shows an example with encrypted passwords and without tls
#
       encrypt passwords = false
#
       server string = %h server (Samba %v)
       wins support = Yes
       master = Yes
       browseable = Yes
       passdb backend = ldapsam
       obey pam restrictions = yes
       ldap suffix = dc=localnet
       ldap admin dn = cn=admin,dc=localnet
============

Note that passwords are not encrypted.
This is because samba authentication always fails for all clients when I set "encrypt passwords" to "true". It works fine without encryption. As the comments in the file indicate, I wondered whether ldap ssl is required to support encrypted passwords, but that doesn't seem to be the case. So I don't know why I can't successfully enable encrypted passwords.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks

James R. Phillips

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