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I found many questions but no answers on the web. I described my needs in earlier post, but now switched from security = domain to security = server, and designated the AD domain server as the password server. It works as desired, i.e. I don't need smbpasswd any more, and if windows users change their passwords by ctrl-alt-del, they can later use the new password without coming to admins.

Many thanks for the help. > Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:57:24 +0100 > From: "rruegner" <robowarp@gmx.de> > Subject: Re: [Samba] unable to open passdb database. > To: "Ben Kim" <bkim@edsun.coe.tamu.edu>, <samba@lists.samba.org> > the log says that the passwd file was not found or cant be openend ( > permission) > what passbackend do you use i e. /etc/samba/smbpasswd etc ? > check you...

Hi, I have a question about Samba's capability. I couldn't find answer from web searches so want to try it here. We use samba as file server in a mixed mode w2k active directory domain. The problem is that each time a user changes his/her windows password, admins have to update samba password manually. We want to avoid this, and want Samba to automatically sync the user password with