[Samba] Re: Win9x via Kix unable to get extended user attributes

Ade Fewings [ade@bangor.ac.uk] wrote:
>
> In trying to upgrade Samba here, I have built various versions from
> 3.0.11 to 3.0.14a using various versions of gcc and the Sun compiler
> (this is on Solaris SPARC) and had the following problem in all cases.
> Running the built samba as a logon server, I find that WinXP clients
> work fine but Win9X clients have some difficulties. The problem is that
> the Win9X logon script can't get user attributes beyond userid, such as
> group and full name data. This obviously creates problems for the logon
> script execution.
>
> We use kix for logon script purposes but I don't think that is relevant,
> as this problem did not occur with earlier Samba3 builds. I've read
> somewhere that Win9X uses RPC to acquire such data (whereas XP does it
> another way) but am not really sure of how to go about diagnosing what
> the problem is. Can anybody offer any guidance? It would be much
> appreciated.

man net (and look for string "RAP")
man smb.conf (and look for strings "logon home" and "98")


--
Michal Kurowski
<mkur@poczta.ggazeta.pl>


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