samba - Mar 1999 - Brand new install and Swat will not accept root passwd????

Hello Fellow Samba users,

I have a question. I installed today, FreeBSD 3.1 and put Samba 
2.0.3 on. When I compiled Samba, did cat /etc/passwd | 
mksmbpaswd.sh > /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd and then 
did smbpasswd -a root  and entered passwd ( no different than 
original passwd). I can start swat but when it asks for username 
and passwd, it fails to authenticate me.

My root passwd is correct. 

Any help?

Thanks in advance,

Lanny Baron
http://freedom.cybertouch.org
http://ca.samba.org/samba/samba.html

> I have a question. I installed today, FreeBSD 3.1 and put Samba
> 2.0.3 on. When I compiled Samba, did cat /etc/passwd |
> mksmbpaswd.sh > /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd and then
> did smbpasswd -a root  and entered passwd ( no different than
> original passwd). I can start swat but when it asks for username
> and passwd, it fails to authenticate me.
This is related to the Samba build spotting that FreeBSD 3.1 has PAM
support, and failing to use it successfully (I'm not sure whether FreeBSD or
Samba is the culprit here).

To make this work either:

Install Samba from the FreeBSD ports collection, which patches around the
PAM detection.

Hack the Samba sources yourself so that no attempt is made to build with PAM
support.

Cheers,
Dermot