[Samba] samba authenticates only against the primary group of a user?

Hello everyone! I seem to be have a bit of a problem setting up a few network folders for a my office on a Qnap storage device running Samba -v3.5.2. So I ask: when the 'write list' of a share contains ONLY groups, and a user tries to log on to ...

Message posted on the February 16th, 2011 - 8:20 PM ET

[Samba] samba 3.5.7 tries to authenticate on ADS by machine name, not username

Hi There's a lot of this all over the web but there doesn't seem to be much in the way of in-depth investigation. I have a RHEL5.3 server on which I've installed samba 3.5.7 from http://ftp.sernet.de/pub/samba/3.5/rhel/5/i386/ It's set up with ...

Message posted on the March 3rd, 2011 - 3:30 AM ET

[Samba] users map with ADS not working

Hi All I am running two instances of samba on same box. One instance of samba has joined AD domain ABC and the other 123. My workstation is on ABC domain and when I try to connect to samba server on ABC domain, it asks me for user name and password ...

Message posted on the October 10th, 2012 - 11:20 PM ET

[Samba] Strange nslcd error with ldap database

Greetings, I've got a S4 DC joined to a Windows 2008 R2 DC. I'm using the s4bind scripts to add uidNumber/gidNumber/etc entries to LDAP, and I've got nss-pam-ldap installed on the S4 server. I had this working back in December, but since installing ...

Message posted on the March 16th, 2013 - 11:10 AM ET

[Samba] Can Samba security = user be used for guest share without a Windows login prompt ?

Hello, I hope this is not a dumb question, but I just need some clarification. I am trying to set up an Ubuntu Samba share for a lab with Windows computers (Vista and XP). I have two shares that are supposed to require authentication and one that ...

Message posted on the December 10th, 2010 - 12:10 AM ET

[Samba] Joining domain works - logging in doesn't

I'm building a replacement samba 3.5.6 domain controller to replace an old 3.0 one. Some other things are changing too. Our user accounts are now in LDAP rather than flat files (although the machine trust accounts will remain in a flat file), but ...

Message posted on the October 22nd, 2010 - 7:40 AM ET

[Samba] winbind map untrusted domain problem

Hi I have a question/problem about winbind and the "map untrusted to domain" (=yes) parameter. I use samba 3.6.0 on FreeBSD 8.2 with the following configuration: [global] encrypt passwords = yes map untrusted to domain = yes allow ...

Message posted on the November 5th, 2011 - 8:00 AM ET

[Samba] Samba idmap against ad

Hello, I have a samba server (old - running FC6, samba 3.0.24-11.fc6) that authenticates against AD. This is all configured and has been working fine until this week. A new user has been added to AD, but cannot access the samba drives. All other ...

Message posted on the August 11th, 2010 - 7:40 AM ET

[Samba] Samba authentication problem

Hi, I have asked around in other forums but no one seems to know why this doesn't work. I have a backup server with samba on it and am trying to set it up to only allow write access when a user authenticates but to allow reading from anyone ...

Message posted on the March 24th, 2011 - 3:10 PM ET

[Samba] UID mapping

Hi, I'm trying to convert an old system on Solaris 10 that uses the smbpasswd file authentication method to a system that authenticates against Active Directory. I've managed to get winbind working but of course this just allocates UIDs as it sees ...

Message posted on the June 14th, 2011 - 1:00 PM ET

[Samba] Guest shares in an ADS security model

Are these possible ? I am trying to setup a guest access printer attached to a working fileserver that authenticates its users against a Windows AD. I keep getting authentication requests on attempting to connect to the printer. Before I post my ...

Message posted on the October 18th, 2010 - 11:40 AM ET

NTLM: incorrect bytecount for NEGPROT response data

Hello all. I use several Debian servers running since 2005. All them use Samba->NTLM->Cyrus SASL authentication chain for Cyrus IMAP and Postfix SMTP services, in very trivial form: pwcheck_method: saslauthd mech_list: plain ntlm ...

Message posted on the July 26th, 2010 - 4:20 AM ET

Mixing Windows AD authentication with Linux group memberships

Hello I have a functioning Samba server (Ubuntu 10.04) that authenticates its users via winbind to a Windows AD. The AD has about 10000 users (call it set A), but the Samba server is to be accessible to about 50 among those (call it subset B). I ...

Message posted on the September 29th, 2010 - 11:40 AM ET