[clue-tech] Samba problamba

[David L. Willson]

Mike and Dave,

I have RTFM'd a lot. I'm sorry for my poor question.

Here is a high-level overview:

I have a Samba 3.x on Ubuntu server that has been working great for a few years.

I'm using a Samba user-map to map several domain accounts to one Unix account.

The system had a disk failure, and I had to do some work to recover, but I don't remember changing the Samba config around the time of the break. Nonetheless, it doesn't work now.

As of the break, none of the domain accounts work, but the Unix account credentials work to login to Samba. I think I remember things working this way in Samba 2.x with "security = user" and "encrypt passwords = no".

I've played with the user-map and the config file until I'm blue. I can't figure out why it cut to this behavior.

A few years ago, I had an update take Samba out entirely, but a subsequent update the next day fixed it right up. This break has been in for over a week, and I've checked for newer updates several times.

I feel like a waterbed. (I'm baffled.)

David L. Willson
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----- "mike havlicek" <mhavlicek1 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> David,
> 
> It might help if you give an abstract overview of what it is you
> are trying to accomplish. Just posting a snippet of a config with
> what seems to be a vague why doesn't this work the way I want it to
> without saying what you are trying to do isn't very appealing to 
> troubleshoot. I admit this description from my end is hasty and
> perhaps hypocritical ... perhaps what appeared to be a config snippet
> actually did have all the necessary information?
> 
> -Mike
> 
> --- On Thu, 9/16/10, David L. Willson <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU> wrote:
> 
> > From: David L. Willson <DLWillson at TheGeek.NU>
> > Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Samba problamba
> > To: "CLUE technical discussion" <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
> > Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010, 9:51 PM
> > > David L. Willson wrote:
> > > > Can anyone spot the error in the config that is
> > causing this
> > > frickin' server to think ~it~
> > > > should  do the domain authentication?
> > > 
> > > Sure.
> > > 
> > > > security = domain
> > > 
> > > You want security = server.
> > > 
> > >
> http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ServerType.html#id2560758
> > > 
> > > Dave
> > 
> > But... As I read that article, "security = domain" is
> > better than "security = server".
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