HELP:Server's Role (logon server) conflicts with server-level security

[itsrlong]

I found a similar post on here, but didn't see any response or resolutions. Just that it had been closed/locked.

It's Samba version 3.0.22 (HP CIFS Server A.02.03).

I get the following when I run "smbstatus":

"Server's Role (logon server) conflicts with server-level security"

I try to connect from a windows xp pc with the correct login name and password, but it prompts me for username and password.

Please help.

 

[itsrlong]

Set to "user" level security instead of "server" level security and I can now access the server. What the difference in the two levels of security?

 

[danomac]

Server level security was from when Samba was not able to participate in a domain. There's warnings in the Samba documentation to avoid this mode for a few reasons, most of them security related.