Dear list, I have recently installed Ubuntu 8.04 Server on a machine which I want to be a domain controler for a small network of 5 PCs, each of them running WinXP Pro SP2. I have read and followed all the instructions on Samba's site and have generated machine trust accounts and usernames/passwords for the users of the local net. There is no firewall installed on Ubuntu. Althought I have done this task a few times by now for various networks, the odd thing about this installation is that the passwords that the users use keep "reseting", meaning that although I set the passwords for them with smbpasswd -a username and then input their passwords and the users do not change them, after a few successful logins, WinXP complains that username/password might be incorect. What I have done that seems to work is to execute a "smbpasswd username" and place the same passwd again which seems to solve the issue, but for only a few logins. I have tried to re-join the computers to the domain and the process of joining runs smoothly without any errors. However after a few logins, the problem prevails. Samba version is 3.0.28a. Passwd backend is smbpasswd. Any help would be greatly appreciated as this server is a production server and users keep sending requests that their passwds don't work and I have re-set their passwords almost on a daily basis. Thank you !! Chris __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4073 (20090513) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com
Dear list, I have recently installed Ubuntu 8.04 Server on a machine which I want to be a domain controler for a small network of 5 PCs, each of them running WinXP Pro SP2. I have read and followed all the instructions on Samba's site and have generated machine trust accounts and usernames/passwords for the users of the local net. There is no firewall installed on Ubuntu. Althought I have done this task a few times by now for various networks, the odd thing about this installation is that the passwords that the users use keep "reseting", meaning that although I set the passwords for them with smbpasswd -a username and then input their passwords and the users do not change them, after a few successful logins, WinXP complains that username/password might be incorect. What I have done that seems to work is to execute a "smbpasswd username" and place the same passwd again which seems to solve the issue, but for only a few logins. I have tried to re-join the computers to the domain and the process of joining runs smoothly without any errors. However after a few logins, the problem prevails. Samba version is 3.0.28a. Passwd backend is smbpasswd. Any help would be greatly appreciated as this server is a production server and users keep sending requests that their passwds don't work and I have re-set their passwords almost on a daily basis. Thank you !! Chris __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4073 (20090513) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com