[Samba on Debian Etch] create_builtin_administrators

[morenz]

Hi folks,
Yesterday I installed a fresh new file server with 2x250GB HDDs in RAID-1 (mirror), set up system (minimal system, no desktop environment) and configured Samba with share (open) permissions.
Then I went to backup server (windows 2003 sbs) and started dumping data to new server. I got some errors like "Cannot copy file: Network Resource no longer exists".

I went to logs and examined the one relative to my machine (others don't show errors), and got this, repeated a lot of times.

[2008/01/04 11:38:56, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(785)
create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators
[2008/01/04 11:38:56, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(751)
create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users
[2008/01/04 11:38:56, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(785)
create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators
[2008/01/04 11:38:56, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(751)
create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users
[2008/01/04 11:38:56, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(785)
create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators
[2008/01/04 11:38:56, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(751)
create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users
[2008/01/04 11:38:56, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(785)
create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators
[2008/01/04 11:38:56, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(751)
create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users
[2008/01/04 11:38:56, 1] smbd/service.c:make_connection_snum(950)
192.168.1.100 (192.168.1.100) connect to service Shared initially as user nobody (uid=65534, gid=65534) (pid 2685)
[2008/01/04 11:39:07, 1] smbd/service.c:close_cnum(1150)
192.168.1.100 (192.168.1.100) closed connection to service Shared

I am almost sure that I misconfigured smb.conf, but I'm wondering what's wrong.
The only thing I'm not sure (but in old server, running CentOS4.5, was not a problem) is that my NT domain is "name".local (built when we had no server farm) and in smb.conf I put "name".com.

I report here my smb.conf edits (other stuff is as the standard file):



## Browsing/Identification ###

# Change this to the workgroup/NT-domain name your Samba server will part of
workgroup = mydomain.tld

####### Authentication #######

# "security = user" is always a good idea. This will require a Unix account
# in this server for every user accessing the server. See
# /usr/share/doc/samba-doc/htmldocs/Samba3-HOWTO/ServerType.html
# in the samba-doc package for details.
security = share


# Zeus Shared Folder
#
[Shared]
comment = Zeus Shared Folder
writable = yes
locking = no
path = /Shared
public = yes
browseable = yes
read_only = no
guest ok = yes



I'm sorry for the long post, but I think to have been quite explanatory ;)

Thanks in advance,
Morenz

[falko]

What's the output of ls -l /etc/samba/smbpasswd?

[morenz]

zeus:~# ls -l /etc/samba/smbpasswd
-rw------- 1 root root 0 2008-01-04 11:27 /etc/samba/smbpasswd


Do I have to chmod it 644, while it cannot be accessed from "other" users (I read in logs that when connecting from a windows machine to a share, it uses nobody user)?

Thanks
Morenz

[falko]

Under what user is Samba running? Try to chown /etc/samba/smbpasswd to that user.