Re: NIS and Samba - can't authenticate Windows 98 clients

2003-06-09 Thread Michael Heironimus
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 09:44:05PM -0500, Todd Pytel wrote: > Zeus/Phoenix > > NIS: should have entries in nsswitch.conf to get their uid/gid info from > Hydra > NFS: it's so easy... too bad it's so insecure... > Samba: should be set to "security=server" and have "password server = > H

Re: NIS and Samba - can't authenticate Windows 98 clients

2003-06-09 Thread Clive Menzies
Thanks Todd - I really appreaciate the work you've put in ;-) On (08/06/03 21:44), Todd Pytel wrote: > OK, here's what I think should work. Bear in mind that > 1) This is a pretty ugly business, and usually takes a lot of > testing to iron out. The following should give a rough outline to star

Re: NIS and Samba - can't authenticate Windows 98 clients

2003-06-08 Thread Todd Pytel
Clive, OK, here's what I think should work. Bear in mind that 1) This is a pretty ugly business, and usually takes a lot of testing to iron out. The following should give a rough outline to start with. 2) This suggestion is not really suitable for a professional installation - it's not particul

Re: NIS and Samba - can't authenticate Windows 98 clients

2003-06-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (08/06/03 18:29), Todd Pytel wrote: > You need to be more specific about how things are set up, specifically > the Samba security level (share, user, domain, etc.). Generally > speaking, Samba and NIS don't really go together. Samba, in most > setups (there are many possibilities), authenticat

Re: NIS and Samba - can't authenticate Windows 98 clients

2003-06-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (08/06/03 18:36), Todd Pytel wrote: > What are you showing here? Are "Hydra" and "Hydra_SAMBA_" different > machines? Why the "-B" with no address? nmblookup will broadcast by > default. I think what you see below is the system trying to resolve > Hydra_SAMBA_ into an IP address as the argume

Re: NIS and Samba - can't authenticate Windows 98 clients

2003-06-08 Thread Todd Pytel
What are you showing here? Are "Hydra" and "Hydra_SAMBA_" different machines? Why the "-B" with no address? nmblookup will broadcast by default. I think what you see below is the system trying to resolve Hydra_SAMBA_ into an IP address as the argument to "-B", i.e. you're not specifying a lookup

Re: NIS and Samba - can't authenticate Windows 98 clients

2003-06-08 Thread Todd Pytel
Clive, You need to be more specific about how things are set up, specifically the Samba security level (share, user, domain, etc.). Generally speaking, Samba and NIS don't really go together. Samba, in most setups (there are many possibilities), authenticates its users against the smbpasswd file

Re: NIS and Samba - can't authenticate Windows 98 clients

2003-06-08 Thread Clive Menzies
On (08/06/03 22:43), Clive Menzies wrote: > I've been round in several circles in the last 24 hours without success. > Looking through the docs and googling provided numerous ideas as to the > source of the problem but various fixes failed to sort this particular > problem: > > I've recently set-u

NIS and Samba - can't authenticate Windows 98 clients

2003-06-08 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi I've been round in several circles in the last 24 hours without success. Looking through the docs and googling provided numerous ideas as to the source of the problem but various fixes failed to sort this particular problem: I've recently set-up a network with 3 servers running NFS and Samba.