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using samba with --enable-ldapsam... When changing a user's password with sampasswd 'username', I get this error: failed to modify user with uid = bnelson with: Insufficient access Insufficient 'write' privilege to the 'uid' attribute of entry 'uid=bnelson,ou=People [...]'. Looking at a snoop of the network, it seems like smbpassw...

Is there anyway to merge the users accounts (passwd/shadow) on our UNIX machine to create a default sampasswd file. We have close to 11,000 UNIX accounts and would like to use samba's domain login features. We are just not sure how to merge the current users into the samba's passwd list. Or is there another way to do this??? Thanks, ********************************* Adam Taylor Computing Cen...

...pc rights grant 'DOMAIN\paulg' SeMachineAccountPrivilege But I get prompted for a password and naturally if I don't enter a password I get. Could not connect to server 127.0.0.1 The username or password was not correct. Now as a test I did the following o disable our plugin and used sampasswd plugin o create Samba root user o assign SeMachineAccountPrivilege to myself o comment out sampasswd backend and enable our backend o I was now able to join the PC to our domain. So the question is it possible to gant rights without using the Samba root user? Any other suggestions? Thanks Paul

Set-up Mandrake 8.2 Samba 2.2.3 Problem description When changing the password of an existing user or adding a new user they can not logon from a WinXP Pro machine. Existing users can logon OK from WinXP Pro and Win98. New users, and those with password changed, can logon from a Win98 machine (smbclient \\\\server_name\\share_name -U user_name works OK). I have started an stopped samba but it