On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > having finally made the switch from an old server running lenny to > a new one (running at the same IP address), most functions seem to > be working, but samba shares are failing -- people who used to be > able to access shares from their windows systems now can't, and the > log file reports that: > > check_ntlm_password: Authentication for user [fred] -> [fred] > FAILED with error NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER > > i've reproduced all of the standard user/group files so normal > logins work just fine. i've also copied all of the samba config > files that seemed relevant. can someone give me a hint as to the > file(s) i should have reproduced from the old system on the new one? > or must i run "smbpasswd" for each account on the new system, or > something like that? naturally, i'd like the users to not have to > reconfigure anything on their ends.
while this is somewhat off-topic (not being strictly speaking a debian question), here's another observation that might debug this. from /var/log/samba/log.nmbd: [2009/09/21 08:31:23, 0] nmbd/nmbd_become_lmb.c:become_local_master_stage2(395) ***** Samba name server MAIN is now a local master browser for workgroup CORP on subnet 192.168.169.10 ***** [2009/09/21 08:31:23, 0] nmbd/nmbd_browsesync.c:find_domain_master_name_query_fail(350) find_domain_master_name_query_fail: Unable to find the Domain Master Browser name CORP<1b> for the workgroup CORP. Unable to sync browse lists in this workgroup. it seems, then, that the new linux system tries to become the local master browser, but (am i reading this right?) fails so that subsequent queries to the master browser also fail, perhaps causing all authentication requests after that to fail. is there a simple fix for this? i've tried reproducing everything necessary from the old machine, but i clearly missed something. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry. Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ======================================================================== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org