[Fwd: Re: XP logon to SAMBA]

[Cyber Source]

There was all sorts of stuff missing and missing steps needed. I wrote 
it all down and will post it when I get a chance, hopefully save someone 
else lots of hair pullin. I got it workin like a charm now. Biggest 
thing was the machine account but a much more important step was missing 
that I found, stay tuned.....

Richard Hubbard wrote:

>I'm usually one of those that likes to do things the
>hard way (because you usually cant easily script a
>GUI) I would recommend that you look at webmin
>(www.webmin.com).  
>
>It is a gui for almost everything on Linux/Unix box,
>is open source/Free, and the Samba module is very
>good.
>
>That will take a lot of the pain out of creating
>machine accounts (which are a pain in the neck, easliy
>scripted, but still a pain!)
>
>
>--- Robert Meyer <meyer_rm at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>You need to add the machine to the domain before you
>>can log in.  That means
>>that you need to create a domain account for the
>>MACHINE, along with the users.
>>
>>Cheers!
>>
>>Bob
>>--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
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>>>---------------------------- Original Message
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>>>Subject: Re: XP logon to SAMBA
>>>From:    "Cyber Source" <peter at thecybersource.com>
>>>Date:    Fri, May 7, 2004 12:33 pm
>>>To:      "Carl Yost Jr" <carlyos at buffalo.com>
>>>
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>>>I did that. I saved your email from a long time
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>>ago and took all the (I
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>>>think) relative info from your smb.conf example
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>>and put them in. Currently
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>>>when I log onto my XP box, I can see my home
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>>folder in the network share,
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>>>etc. But if I try to join the domain, it keeps
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>>telling me access denied
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>>>and invalid user name and/or password.
>>>1. Does anything need to be in this *.bat file or
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>>does it just need to see
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>>>it in there?
>>>2. I saw a post somewhere where they said xp
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>>clients needed to "tone down"
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>>>some security options in the local security
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>>sections, like requiring
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>>>digitally encrypted signatures and the like, so I
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>>took there advise and
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>>>disabled them (3 options about digital encrypt
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>>with domains).
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>>>It should be seeing the domain, because it tells
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>>me that I have access
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>>>denied, etc and telling me I have the wrong
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>>name/password. And I can see
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>>>my home in the network places, etc. The samba logs
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>>all say I am a domain
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>>>controller, no error messages, etc.
>>>So any ideas as to what could be wrong?
>>>
>>>
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>>>>Let me know if you need any help. The %U.bat is
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>>for username.bat. So if
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>>>you create the login scripts per user just name
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>>the script the
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>>>>username.bat. Then when they login their machine
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>>looks for their
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>>>username file for the script.
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>>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>>From: Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com>
>>>>Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 09:18:01 -0400
>>>>To: carlyos at buffalo.com, nflug at nflug.org
>>>>Subject: XP logon to SAMBA
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>>This was a subject a while ago. I am trying to
>>>>>          
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>>setup xp domain logins
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>>>to SAMBA. Carl sent me his copy of smb.conf file
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>>and a brief
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>>>explanation. I am getting stuck on the "logon
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>>script = %U.bat" line.
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>>>Just exactly how does this logon script get made?
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>>What is needed in it
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>>>and where should it reside? Any help? Thanks,
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