Samba - If I use @valid users, only root can log in
 

Running Samba 3.0.22 / Fedora Core 5

All my Linux users are members of @users. I have used the "valid users = @users" in my smb.conf. But now only root can log in. If I remove the valid_users line from smb.conf, everyone can log in.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Steve :)

Is @users an NIS netgroup? Was samba compiled with net group support?

Thank you for your reply jschiwal,

I'm running FC5, and Samba was installed as a binary using yum. I tested just using "valid users = sa", where sa is my username, and still - I'm unable to login.

The strange thing is, root can always log in.

When login fails, this gets added to syslog
Any ideas?

Thanks,
Steve :)

Have you specifically added your username to the smbpasswd database?

Thank you for your reply gmcmaster,

/etc/samba/smbpasswd doesn't exist as I'm using tdbsam as my backend. If I do "pdbedit -L", then sa is listed.

And, smbpasswd successfully changes the password which I use to log in, so I assume that's all ok.

Thanks,
Steve :)

The reason that I asked if @users is an NIS netgroup is because the samba manpage says that usage is for NIS netgroups, not groups in general.

sorry. double posted originally.