samba - Mar 1998 - changing password from win95 fail

Hello,

now I've set up a linux samba password server using Samba 1.9.18p4 on 
a linux 2.0.33.
File and password serving works ok now, but I can't change my 
passwords with any Win95 utility.
Samba always tells me "Wrong password" an d in the logs it says:
"Disallowing access to user due to null password
check_lanman:password: old password doesn't match"

But I know that it is the right password. I just retyped it several 
times seconds before I tried it again.

I compiled Samba on Linux using all of the following flags.
-DREPLACE_GETPASS
-DSMBGETPASS
-DALLOW_CHANGE_PASSWORD
-DSHADOW_PWD
-DQUOTAS
-DFAST_SHARE_MODE

The server is running security = user using encrypted passwords out 
of a smbpasswd file.

Please help

Thanks a lot,

Robert





Robert Koruna <robert.koruna@tiwag.co.at>

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Robert Koruna wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> now I've set up a linux samba password server using Samba 1.9.18p4 on
> a linux 2.0.33.
> File and password serving works ok now, but I can't change my
> passwords with any Win95 utility.
> Samba always tells me "Wrong password" an d in the logs it says:
> "Disallowing access to user due to null password
> check_lanman:password: old password doesn't match"
The "Disallowing access to user due to null password"
line is the key. What does the users password look like
in the smbpasswd file ?

My guess would be "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX".

If so you need to *set* an old password before the
user can change it.

Use smbpasswd as root to change the users password
to a known value, and then use that old value in
the 'Old password' part of the Win95 dialog box.

Cheers,

	Jeremy Allison,
	Samba Team.




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