I am trying to get Samba running on a RHEL 4 server.

My intent is to have each user on the Network able to access a single /Public folder, as well as their own initial.surname folder.

I have managed to get the server registered on the ADS domain (Windows 2003) and can user the wbinfo -t/-g-/-u and getent passwd/group commands with no problems.

If I open the Network Server dialog in gnome I get a full list of the servers in the Domain, however I cannot access any of them - I'm not even given the option of a Name/Login.

On the windows boxes I can navigate to \\SERVERNAME and see the printer, Public and initial.surname folders. I can also access the Public folders contents. However, if I try and access the user folder the I am asked for a username and password, which are not authenticated.

I think there are 3 things going on that may be an issue.

1) We use no internal passwords on our servers - instead keeping them off any external networks.

2) I cannot tell where the use directories are supposed to be created (perhaps because they are only to be created after the password has been authenticated

3) I cannot get kinit username@domain to work getting the following error after entering the password:

kinit(v5): KDC reply did not match expectations while getting initial credentials

Any suggestions?