Re: NIS and Samba - can't authenticate Windows 98 clients
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-up a network with 3 servers running NFS and Samba. By
> synchronising the users of these and 3 clients (running Debian, MacOSX
> and Windows between them) all could access files on the servers
> according to permissions and ownership.
>
> NIS would be a more elegant solution and so I have designated
> one server as the NIS server and set it up accordingly. AFAICT this
> works fine on the Linux side - tested it by removing one user from one
> of the other servers and relied on NIS to authenticate access. So far
> so good - I didn't even have to configure the NIS client; it just seemed
> to work out of the box ;-)
>
> The problem arises when booting the same client into windows98 - it
> doesn't seem to find the NIS server to validate the user. Relevant parts
> of the smb.conf are as follows:
>
> # set local master to no if you don't want Samba to become a master
> # browser on your network. Otherwise the normal election rules apply
> local master = yes
>
> # Windows Internet Name Serving Support Section:
> # WINS Support - Tells the NMBD component of Samba to enable it's WINS
> # Server
> wins support = yes
>
> I've tried various settings on the windows client including the NT
> network setting. I have a limited understanding of networking in
> general and Windows in particular.
Some further info:
Hydra:/# /usr/bin/nmblookup -B Hydra_SAMBA_
YPBINDPROC_DOMAIN: Domain not bound
Que?
TIA
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