Hello SAMBA Mailing List,
I have three SAMBA v1.9.18 servers running on three Linux 2.0.33
(Debian 1.3.2 distribution) machines operating on my LAN. They are named
Server1, Server2, and Server3. I have Server1 functioning as the
"password server" for my SAMBA and Win95 network. In Server1's
smb.conf
file I have the following set:
password level = 20
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
I created the smbpasswd file for Server1 as was explained in the
ENCRYPTION.txt text file (except I used ypcat passwd.byname because I run
NIS: ypcat passwd.byname|mksmbpasswd.sh > smbpasswd).
I have Server2 and Server3 ask Server1 for password
authentication. Therefore I have the following in thier smb.conf files:
password level = 20
security = server
password server = Server1
encrypt passwords = yes
I also have Server1 functioning as the "domain master browser" as
well as the "WINS server". Therefore, I also have the following in
Server1's smb.conf file:
wins support = yes
domain master = yes
local master = yes
preferred master = yes
os level = 255
Server2, however, does domain logins. So in Server2's smb.conf
file, I also have:
domain logons = yes
logon script = logon.bat
[netlogon]
...
Now that I got all that preliminary stuff out of the way, I can
get to my problem :-) ...
My problem is trying to change the SMB password from Control
Panel->Passwords from Win95 boxes. Win95 reports that "This request is
not supported by the network". The "NET PASSWORD" command from
DOS boxes
also fail. Checking the log files of Server2, I see the following error
message:
password server SERVER1 rejected the password
get_smbpwd_entry: unable to open file /etc/samba/private/smbpasswd
The second part of the error message is understandable. Because Server2
is set to ask Server1 for password authentication, I figure it doesn't
need an smbpasswd file of its own. So I didn't create one. But the first
part of the error message I do not understand. Why does Server1 reject
the password?
Checking Server1's log file did not reveal a whole lot. In it's
log file, the only message that I see that could be related to this
problem is:
get_smbpwd_entry: malformed password entry (uid not number)
I say "could be" because I get the first error message in
Server2's log
file multiple times (once for every time I try to change the password from
a Win95 box), but that error message in Server1's log file only appears
_once_.
I tried fooling with the "passwd program" setting in the smb.conf
file. To see if the program I set for "passwd program" even gets
executed when I try to change the password from the Win95 box, I created a
test script (called 'testbin') which simply looks like this:
#!/bin/sh
echo "Hello" > /tmp/out
And I set the "passwd program" setting to "passwd program =
testbin". If
the passwd program actually does get executed, I should get a file named
'out' in /tmp. But I don't. So this seems to indicate that the
program I
have set for "passwd program" does not even get executed. I did this
for
both Server1 and Server2 with negative results.
Also, I did set -DALLOW_CHANGE_PASSWORD in the Makefile before
compiling SAMBA.
Anybody have any ideas as to what could be the problem? Thanks in
advance for any help on this.
============================================================================Arcadio
A. Sincero Jr. a.k.a The TicK -=LpC=-
Undergraduate Computer Science Major/Linux Enthusiast/Competitive Bodybuilder
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- Arcadio A. Sincero Jr., 1997