James Marcinek
2005-Feb-11 13:32 UTC
[Samba] Can't change password with Windows XP (Change passwordfeature)
Thanks, I'll give this a try. Ganeshram Iyer <ganeshramiyer@gmail.com> wrote:> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:29:51 -0000, James Marcinek > <jmarc1@jemconsult.biz> wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I've been trying to figure out why I can't change passwords with my windows > > clients. I thought that at when I first built my smb.conf I could. > > > > I'm running RHEL3 (I also have another system at a different locationrunning> > FC3 with the same problem ). > > > > I've been looking through my smb.conf (see excerpts): > > > > # You may wish to use password encryption. Please read > > # ENCRYPTION.txt, Win95.txt and WinNT.txt in the Samba documentation. > > # Do not enable this option unless you have read those documents > > encrypt passwords = yes > > ; smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd > > passdb backend = tdbsam > > > > # The following are needed to allow password changing from Windows to > > # update the Linux system password also. > > # NOTE: Use these with 'encrypt passwords' and 'smb passwd file' above. > > # NOTE2: You do NOT need these to allow workstations to change only > > # the encrypted SMB passwords. They allow the Unix password > > # to be kept in sync with the SMB password. > > unix password sync = Yes > > passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u > > passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password*%n\n> > *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* > > > > We get an error now that states not authorized (or something like that) to > > change password. These are Windows XP Pro systems. > > > > The version of Samba is: > > > > samba-3.0.9-1 > > > > This is driving me crazy. > > > > Can anyone help me out? > > > > Thanks, > > > > James > > Hey James, > I just recently played with this setup. I finally got it to work after > debugging the output of the passwd command. Try this: > > passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *ReType*new*password* %n\n > *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* > > Keep in mind that this all has to be on one line. I have not included > any line break stuff in there. Of course I must mention that I tried > these on RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3 with Samba 3.0.9-1.3E.2 and it > work fine. If this does not work then you could try setting log level > to 100 and passwd chat debug to yes and searching the log files for > possible errors. > Ganesh > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >
James Marcinek
2005-Feb-13 04:13 UTC
[Samba] Can't change password with Windows XP (Change passwordfeature)
That did the trick! I wonder why it stopped working? Thanks, James Ganeshram Iyer <ganeshramiyer@gmail.com> wrote:> On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:29:51 -0000, James Marcinek > <jmarc1@jemconsult.biz> wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I've been trying to figure out why I can't change passwords with my windows > > clients. I thought that at when I first built my smb.conf I could. > > > > I'm running RHEL3 (I also have another system at a different locationrunning> > FC3 with the same problem ). > > > > I've been looking through my smb.conf (see excerpts): > > > > # You may wish to use password encryption. Please read > > # ENCRYPTION.txt, Win95.txt and WinNT.txt in the Samba documentation. > > # Do not enable this option unless you have read those documents > > encrypt passwords = yes > > ; smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd > > passdb backend = tdbsam > > > > # The following are needed to allow password changing from Windows to > > # update the Linux system password also. > > # NOTE: Use these with 'encrypt passwords' and 'smb passwd file' above. > > # NOTE2: You do NOT need these to allow workstations to change only > > # the encrypted SMB passwords. They allow the Unix password > > # to be kept in sync with the SMB password. > > unix password sync = Yes > > passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u > > passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password*%n\n> > *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* > > > > We get an error now that states not authorized (or something like that) to > > change password. These are Windows XP Pro systems. > > > > The version of Samba is: > > > > samba-3.0.9-1 > > > > This is driving me crazy. > > > > Can anyone help me out? > > > > Thanks, > > > > James > > Hey James, > I just recently played with this setup. I finally got it to work after > debugging the output of the passwd command. Try this: > > passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *ReType*new*password* %n\n > *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* > > Keep in mind that this all has to be on one line. I have not included > any line break stuff in there. Of course I must mention that I tried > these on RedHat Enterprise Linux AS 3 with Samba 3.0.9-1.3E.2 and it > work fine. If this does not work then you could try setting log level > to 100 and passwd chat debug to yes and searching the log files for > possible errors. > Ganesh > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >