After upgrading to 10.5.3 I can no longer login to my RedHat ES4 shares

I have the same problem. It would be very nice if someone could help us out here. 😉

Welcome to the forums... unfortunately SMB issues are not fully mainstream.

Anyhow, I have scanned the change log of files touched by the update (searching for SMB - original list courtesy of Rixstep). This yielded:

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server.plist
/private/etc/smb.conf
/System/Library/CoreServices/SmbFileServer.bundle/Versions/A/Resources/DesktopDe faults.plist
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smb.server.preferences.plist
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.smbfsloadkext.plist
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/smbd.plist
/private/etc/smb.conf.template
/System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext
/System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext/Contents/CodeDirectory
/System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext/Contents/CodeRequirements
/System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext/Contents/CodeResources
/System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext/Contents/CodeSignature
/System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext/Contents/Info.plist
/System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext/Contents/MacOS/smbfs
/System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext/Contents/Resources/load_smbfs
/System/Library/Extensions/smbfs.kext/Contents/version.plist
/System/Library/Filesystems/smbfs.fs
/System/Library/Filesystems/smbfs.fs/Contents
/System/Library/Filesystems/smbfs.fs/Contents/Info.plist
/System/Library/Filesystems/smbfs.fs/Contents/Resources
/System/Library/Filesystems/smbfs.fs/Contents/Resources/English.lproj
/System/Library/Filesystems/smbfs.fs/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist. strings
/usr/lib/sasl2/smb_lm.so
/usr/lib/sasl2/smb_nt.so
/usr/lib/sasl2/smb_ntlmv2.so
/private/var/db/smb.conf

Items highlighted in bold could be relevant.

Have you checked that your entry in nsmb.conf is intact? If it is, could it be overridden by a change to one of the other conf files (or a plist)?

It never hurts to ask the obvious.

Apple employees only rarely participate in the forums in an official capacity (I haven't seen it yet!). Apple posts its thoughts via support articles in the knowledgebase. Unfortunately, I haven't seen anything about this.

Unfortunately I can't help you any further. Samba works for me, except through the Finder! (I keep on getting errors copying files off the server - but it works through the command line, which is not very elegant).

Hi

I looked at the files but I don't have anything in /Library/LaunchDeamons/

Could that be the problem?
I looked at the other files but they look ok I think.

Should be /system/library/launchdaemons/

I can't go much further with you on this, as I have no "Clear text" samba servers to play with. My best suggestion for the moment is to do a safe boot (hold down the shift key), and then a normal restart.

Ok thanks.

It seems to be a bug or change in the sofware and that there is only few with the problem so maybe we could report it to Apple.
Do you know what the easiest way is for reporting such things?

Same problem here. Right after two people in our office had made the update to 10.5.3, they are unable to connect to our 2004 Fedora Samba-server, while the others still are able to connect. The samba server is writing this lines in the log at /var/log/samba/machinename:

[2008/06/04 13:17:03, 0] auth/pampass.c:smb pampasscheck(810)
smb pampasscheck: PAM: smb pamauth failed - Rejecting User USERNAME !
[2008/06/04 13:17:05, 0] auth/pampass.c:smb pampasscheck(810)
smb pampasscheck: PAM: smb pamauth failed - Rejecting User USERNAME !
[2008/06/04 13:17:15, 0] auth/pampass.c:smb pampasscheck(810)
smb pampasscheck: PAM: smb pamauth failed - Rejecting User USERNAME !
[2008/06/04 13:17:17, 0] auth/pampass.c:smb pampasscheck(810)
smb pampasscheck: PAM: smb pamauth failed - Rejecting User USERNAME !

(I swaped the actual username with the string "USERNAME")

We also using the minauth=none option in /etc/nsmb.conf

Btw.
We are using a Sun Solaris server running samba version 3.0.11 if that helps.

10.5.4 is available now downloading it as I type

Message was edited by: DC MBP