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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 Description of problem: I have upgraded a RH 6.2 server to Samba 2.0.10-0.62 and pam to 0.72-20.6 Samba responds slowly and I'm seeing multiple entries in /var/log/messages similar to the following Dec 10 08:50:15 <servername> PAM_unix[8696]: authentication failure; (uid=0) -> <username> for samba service Eventually they connection will work but the lag time is unacceptable. We are using simple passwd/shadow authentication, Samba and Win98 are configured for NON-encrypted passwords. I put 1 user into smbpasswd and it didn't change the error at all. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Configure Samba 2.Connect from a Win98 machine to files or printers with Samba 3.Watch /var/log/messages Additional info:
That looks very much like root is trying, and failing, to authenticate. I'm not aware of other problems, I suggest you ask on the samba mailing list (bugzilla is a bugtracker, not a support channel).
Known Issue when authenticating with plaintext passwords. This is becouse the client UPPER CASES the password before we get it. Your password is almost certainly in lower case, and thats the second thing we try. Always set 'encrypt passwords = yes' and setup a smbpasswd file for maximum client compatibility. (Other clients won't even send the plaintext).