[OpenIndiana-discuss] CIFS server stops authenticating users

[Gordon Ross]

Generally, that means the local account is not found or the password is wrong.
Did you look in /var/smb/smbpasswd?

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Chris Ridd <chrisridd at mac.com> wrote:
> We're trying to use the oi_148 kernel CIFS server in workgroup mode to serve a few Windows clients.
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> The smbd was authenticating users against /var/smb/smbpasswd happily for a while but - I'm not sure when - has stopped.
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> It doesn't log why, and some dtrace suggests something weird is up inside smbd. I observed that smbd is calling smb_token_auth_local(), which is calling smb_auth_validate_nt().
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> smb_auth_validate_nt() is returning a non-zero value (success) but smb_token_auth_local() consistently returns 0x010F. I cannot see from the public sources of smb_logon.c how that can be! It is also not one of the defined values in ntstatus.h.
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> Because the result is not NT_STATUS_SUCCESS, smb_logon_local() skips filling in the smb_token_t structure and I haven't chased it all back, but I'd imagine this is why authentication is failing.
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> Has anyone here seen smbd going strange like this? I've sent a msg to cifs-discuss, but figured folks here might be more familiar with smbd in workgroup mode.
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> Chris
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