I have successfully installed Samba on several CentOS machines but I am
having problems attaining complete success on a Ubuntu 8.04 machine.
The Ubuntu machine's configuration file is very simple and looks like this:
[global]
server string = Samba Server
security = USER
workgroup = workgroup
log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
max log size = 50
dns proxy = No
[pamuser]
comment = Secure User's Home Directory
path = /home/secureuser
valid users = secureuser
read only = No
[public]
comment = Public file sharing space
path = /home/public
read only = No
guest ok = Yes
This machine's name is ubuntu and it is within a network with several
other Windows machines and one CentOS machine. The pamuser is a
passworded pam user. Samba runs successfully in this config except that
I am unable to access the pamuser's share from the very same ubuntu
machine using smbclient \\\\ubuntu\\pamuser. Instead, the following
error message appears (after password dialog) :
session setup failed: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
Otherwise, the above config works fine in that I can access the ubuntu
pamuser share from the other Windows and CentOS machines and I can also
access shares on these other machines from the ubuntu machine.
Now, when I then change the security setting to security = SHARE then I
am again able to access the pamuser ubuntu machine from all other
Windows machines, however, I cannot access the pamuser share from the
very same ubuntu machine or the CentOS machine. With security = SHARE I
get a different error message as follows:
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_WRONG_PASSWORD
So, in summary, with security = USER, I can access the pamuser share
from everywhere (Windows and CentOS) except from the very ubuntu machine
where the pamuser resides. Whereas, with security = SHARE, I can access
the pamuser share from all Windows machines but not from the CentOS
machine or the ubuntu machine where the pamuser resides.
I have already spent the better part of two days trying to figure this
out and I have googled it to death. I hope that a samba expert on this
list can offer a solution.
Many Thanks,
Gordon Dickens
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