samba - Sep 2006 - Samba 3.0.23c-1 breaks my home network

Samba 3.0.23 on debian breaks my eMac connection.  I have a debian box 
and an eMac. I posted to my debian distro (Kanotix) and got this info:

"Samba upstream has dropped a previously valid config option with their 
latest version and made every use of it throw an error. "passdb
backend"
supports only one argument anymore in /etc/samba/smb.conf.
passdb backend = tdbsam
(perhaps you were using "passdb backend = tdbsam guest" before)"

I'm assuming that something in samba 3.0.23 changed and affects how 
passwords are handled. Since both my machines can ping each other and 
the Mac "tries" to connect and gets an error (error -36), I'm
guessing
that my password is no longer recognized (or there's some other password 
database related issue.

After googling, I found that tdbsam was a "trivial database" for LANs 
with few machines (that's me), but I don't know how to set it up. Is 
there a debian package for that? Do I add "passdb backend = tdbsam" to
smb.conf global items? I looked for information about installing and 
using tdbsam, but haven't found a tutorial yet? How can I proceed?

Over the past few weeks, I've done hours of reading, made inquiries on 
Apple and debian (Kanotix) forums and still haven't resolved this. I 
would really appreciate some help in understanding this and in resolving 
my connection issue.

Regards,
Ron

On Monday 25 September 2006 14:36, Ron wrote:
> Samba 3.0.23 on debian breaks my eMac connection. ?I have a debian box
> and an eMac. I posted to my debian distro (Kanotix) and got this info:
>
> "Samba upstream has dropped a previously valid config option with
their
> latest version and made every use of it throw an error. "passdb
backend"
> supports only one argument anymore in /etc/samba/smb.conf.
> passdb backend = tdbsam
> (perhaps you were using "passdb backend = tdbsam guest"
before)"
What did you post previously that generated that reply?

What is your current "passdb backend" statement?
If it has more than one value, remove all but the first one (I'm assuming
that
the first value is the one in use; usually the case but not guaranteed).

Chris

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Ron,
> Samba 3.0.23 on debian breaks my eMac connection.  I 
> have a debian box and an eMac. I posted to my debian distro
> (Kanotix) and got this info:
> 
> "Samba upstream has dropped a previously valid config 
> option with their latest version and made every use of
> it throw an error. "passdb backend" supports only
> one argument anymore in /etc/samba/smb.conf.
> passdb backend = tdbsam (perhaps you were using "passdb 
> backend = tdbsam guest" before)"
If you don't have 'passdb backend' explicitly set in
smb.conf, this does not apply to you.
> I'm assuming that something in samba 3.0.23 changed 
> and affects how passwords are handled. Since both my
> machines can ping each other and the Mac "tries" to connect
> and gets an error (error -36), I'm guessing
> that my password is no longer recognized (or there's 
> some other password database related issue.
Can you still connect using smbclient ?



cheers, jerry
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