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Contributor: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton (samba-bugs@samba.org)
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Copyright (C) 1997 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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Created: October 20, 1997
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Updated: February 25, 1999 (Jerry Carter)
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Subject: NT Domain Logons
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===========================================================================
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As of 1.9.18alpha1, Samba supports logins for NT 3.51 and 4.0 Workstations,
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without the need, use or intervention of NT Server. This document describes
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how to set this up. Over the continued development of the 1.9.18alpha
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series, this process (and therefore this document) should become simpler.
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One useful thing to do is to get this version of Samba up and running
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with Win95 profiles, as you would for the current stable version of
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Samba (currently at 1.9.17p4), and is fully documented. You will need
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to set up encrypted passwords. Even if you don't have any Win95 machines,
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using your Samba Server to store the profile for one of your NT Workstation
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users is a good test that you have 1.9.18alpha1 correctly configured *prior*
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to attempting NT Domain Logons.
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The support is still experimental, so should be used at your own risk.
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NT is not as robust as you might have been led to believe: during the
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development of the Domain Logon Support, one person reported having to
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reinstall NT from scratch: their workstation had become totally unuseable.
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[further reports on ntsec@iss.net by independent administrators showing
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similar symptoms lead us to believe that the SAM database file may be
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corruptible. this _is_ recoverable (or, at least the machine is accessible),
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by deleting the SAM file, under which circumstances all user account details
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are lost, but at least the Administrator can log in with a blank password.
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this is *not* possible except if the NT system is installed in a FAT
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partition.]
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This *has* been reported to the NTBUGTRAQ@LISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM digest.
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==========================================================================
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Please note that Samba 2.0 does not **officially** support domain logons
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for Windows NT clients. Of course, domain logon support for Windows 9x
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clients is complete and official. These are two different issues.
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Samba's capability to act as a Primary Domain Controller for Windows NT
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domains is not advertised as it is not completed yet. For more information
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regarding how to obtain the latest development (HEAD branch) source code
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and what features are available, please refer to the NT Domain FAQ on-line
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at the Samba web site under the documentation page.
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