similar to: Samba: smbpasswd problem

Hi, Any user (besides root) cannot execute smbpasswd, neither for command line nor from the WinNT "Change password dialog". Samba works as a PDC for the domain. Additional info: 1) konsole output: Old SMB password: machine 127.0.01 rejected the password change: Error was: The specified password is invalid. Failed to change password for USERNAME (USERNAME stands for a real user name

Hi Samba people I saw this as a problem in the archives about a month ago but no solution ? I'm running samba 2.2.10 on Solaris 8. We have a script to replace /usr/bin/passwd which changes the NIS passwd and then uses smbpasswd to change the user's smb password to the same thing. Some users are getting : NIS password changed for diane on cauchy machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password

I am trying to build 3.0.14a and use it's smbpasswd binary to change passwords on a remote debian woody samba install -- the samba install on the remote debian machine is listed as '2.2.3a-15' I can use the previous smbpasswd binary from the same version on the client linux machine to smbpasswd -r and change user passwords, but the new version from 3.0.14a does not work against the

I am trying to get encrypted passwords working for a Linux/Samba server serving Win9x clients. We want the students to be able to logon either the Samba file system or the Linux server and allow the students to change their password from either. I would really appreciate any help on this matter. We need to get this working as quickly as possible as the old Netware server is on life support.

Hello, I've Googled and done some mailing list searches, but can't figure out the following . When a user on a Windows 2000 machine attempts to change their password, the change gets applied to /etc/passwd, but not to smbpasswd. The error I receive from Windows is: "The system cannot change your password right now because the domain .. Is not available". (The domain is

Hello, I have searched hi and lo for a solution to being unable to change passwords from Windows 2000. Everything seems to work fine, shares, etc. but when I press ctrl-alt-del to bring up the Change Password dialogue, I get the message that "The user doesn't exist or the password was entered incorrectly" from Windows. I am running Samba 2.2.3a on Mandrake Linux 8.2 In my logs,

Hello, Sorry to have posted in the wrong thread, resending the email. We have a samba domain and now some of the users from WINDOWS 2000 Pro are unable to change their password, below is the error : They are able to login without any problems. pdb_free_sam: SAM_ACCOUNT was NULL [2004/06/07 13:52:29, 0] smbd/chgpasswd.c:check_oem_password(817) check_oem_password: incorrect password length

Hi, I sent this in a couple of days ago and have only gotten one suggestion. Can someone read the below problem and try to help me out? I have searched everywhere for a solution to this and have tried numerous 'passwd chat' strings to no avail. Help is much appreciated! James Herschel JSquared Network Solutions (905)847-0799 james@jsquared.ca -----Original Message----- From: James

Hello, Getting this error: [2002/11/02 12:55:16, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwnam(1367) unable to open passdb database. [2002/11/02 12:55:16, 0] smbd/chgpasswd.c:check_oem_password(761) check_oem_password: getsmbpwnam returned NULL [2002/11/02 12:55:16, 0] passdb/passdb.c:pdb_free_sam(210) pdb_free_sam: SAM_ACCOUNT was NULL[2002/11/02 12:55:16, 0]

I've searched the archives for an answer to this problem, and yet nothing that works seems to have been posted. I've seen it posted many times In my particular case, I'm running Samba 2.0.6 on Solaris 2.5.1, configured with the --with-smbwrapper, --with-automount, and --with-syslog options. I also have samba set up as a PDC, and that seems to be working fine. A stripped down

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Hi everybody, I'm an italian system administration (newbie about Samba). I have installed on Mandrake 9.1 the rpm samba3-*-3.0.2a downloaded from a Samba.org's mirror. I have configured a PDC based on ldapsam (OpenLDAP 2.1.29) that works fine, i use smbldap tools to manage sincronization account. Now the problem, when I try from my W2000 Workstation to change my domain password I reach

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Hi, I have successfully installed Samba on a Solaris2.7 system and created the smbpasswd file using mksmbpasswd.sh Now I want to set passwords for all users. But when I try to run "smbpasswd" or "smbpasswd username" as root the following error message occurs: -------------- make_smb_from_nisp: NIS+ lookup failure: Error in accessing NIS+ cold start file... is NIS+ installed?

Hi, I am running samba on linux and solaris 2.6. I have no problem making encrypted passwords work on linux meaning I have Windows 98 and NT users able to map a drive to their home directories on the samba server. I am having problems doing the same thing on solaris 2.6. I have run the mksmbpasswd.sh and the smbpasswd file got created. I have added the following lines to my smb.conf file:

Hello, I am trying to change my passwd via windows password utility. Here is what I have set: passwd program = /usr/local/sbin/smbldap-passwd.pl %u passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n *passwd:*all*authentication* unix password sync = Yes passwd chat debug = yes I am using ldap to store everything. Auth works and the pdc stuff all works

I am trying to setup a /etc/smbpasswd file for my users. I use the following command to create the /etc/smbpasswd file cat /etc/passwd | ./mksmbpasswd.sh > /etc/smbpasswd Redhat 7.1, samba 2.2.5 I thought that users could log onto the linux system and simply type the command: smbpasswd and it would ask for the new password. But it asks for an OLD password which never works. I thought

Trying to upgrade from 2.2.3a to 2.2.4 broke our Solaris 8 PDC. We see the following issues: - Compile flag -KPIC is not valid for gcc, does not seem to bread build - Now looks like directory /usr/spool/samba is needed, but not created by install - smbclient -L hemlock fails with login problem: [2001/10/16 10:43:28, 0] smbd/password.c:connect_to_domain_password_server(1295)

Hi! Im almost loosing my hairs here... I have already had troubles configuring samba to work just like I wanted but in the end everything was fine. Now I have searched a lot and many different views for this problems, so I think its better come here trying to find the entire solution... I have about 30 users on my box, all have passwords already set. So I come to the idea of making a share for