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[Anders Johansson <ajh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 21 June 2008 20:47:02 Jerry Houston wrote:
> Anders Johansson wrote:
> > What do you use to authenticate? LDAP? kerberos? AD?
>
> Ah, that's probably my problem.  When I open the users and groups
> administration module, I see that I have NIS, LDAP and Kerberos
> configured.  It's also a member of a Samba domain (in place for our
> Windows workstations), which may be a mistake, however smb user
> authentication is disabled.

Well, what you're describing sounds suspiciously like a network timeout, so 
any network services that aren't actually in use should be removed

> I don't think I enabled all of those intentionally -- I just did a new
> installation of the server, and haven't got things quite sorted out
> yet.  For example, my Windows laptop can see the smb shares, but can't
> join the domain.  I'm guessing I need to turn on smb user authentication
> in order to get that working.

Not sure, I'm very much not a samba expert :)

> I would have figured that the first authentication method that works
> would be sufficient.  Do you think the multiple authentication sources
> are what's causing my problem?  What would you suggest I try?

Well, the first step would be to remove anything that isn't actually in use on 
your network.

Anders
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