"Ringo Langly" <rlangly@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> On Slackware 10.0 I'm running Samba 3.0.4 and it was working perfectly
> for several months until I tried to add a printer. Now it just
> prompts for users to log-in with username/password, yet it never lets
> them log-in no matter what is entered.
>
> Here's what happened:
>
> Via Webmin I added the network IP printer (HP Laserjet 5n) and all was
> fine. I then went into the Samba config via webmin to add printer to
> samba (first time to use Webmin with samba -- generally edit smb.conf
> by hand). I messed around with the printer settings before deciding
> to do it manually. I added the printer line and restarted samba.
> That's it.
>
> I rebooted and winbind and smbd are both running. I'll attach my
> smb.conf and other files at end of this email. I know I'm still
> connected fine to our Windows NT 4.0 domain because 'wbinfo -u',
> 'wbinfo -g', 'getent passwd', and 'getent group' all work fine and
> show our domain users and groups with no problems.
>
> When I try to browse to server from Windows 2000 Pro it says
> 'Incorrect password or unknown username for: \\linuxserver Connect As
> ... Password ...'.
>
> When I enter like DOMAIN+USERNAME with password it says Username
> invalid but anything else says "The Credentials supplied conflict with
> an existing set of credentials".
>
> For my PC the log shows this:
> [2004/11/05 15:14:18, 1] passdb/passdb.c:pdb_set_sam_sids(201)
> NULL guest account!?!?
> [2004/11/05 15:14:18, 0] auth/auth_util.c:make_server_info_info3(1120)
> make_server_info_info3: pdb_init_sam failed!
>
> Any ideas? HEre are the critical files:
>
> /etc/nsswitch.conf:
> passwd: files winbind
> shadow: files
> group: files winbind
> hosts: files dns
> #(all else is commented out)
>
> /etc/samba/smb.conf:
>
> [global]
> log file = /var/log/samba/%m.log
> guest account =

You need a valid guest account. Take this line out. The default is nobody.
Or you can specify one if you don't want to use the nobody account. Use
guest account = ftp or some other account.

> name resolve order = wins hosts lmhosts bcast
> idmap gid = 10000-20000
> socket options = SO_SNDBUF=16384 SO_RCVBUF=16384
> wins server = 10.142.120.6
> domain master = False
> encrypt passwords = yes
> public = yes
> level2 oplocks = False
> oplocks = False
> netbios name = HOSER
> write cache size = 8388608
> server string = Samba Server
> winbind enum users = yes
> idmap uid = 10000-20000
> password server = *
> workgroup = HBMC
> os level = 10
> winbind enum groups = yes
> security = domain
> preferred master = no
> winbind separator = +
> log level = 1
>
> I've given everything I can think of... and nothing has changed as far
> as I know. I just stopped and restarted the server to add a freakin
> printer. If anyone sees anything that could be screwing-up, I'd love
> some feedback. The logs for the PC are the only thing that's changed,
> but not sure what they mean.
>
> Thanks in advanced for any suggestions or ideas...
>
> Ringo