similar to: smbpasswd for user does not work

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

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,

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]

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

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 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

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)

We recently migrated from WindowsNT to Samba 3.0.2a. After about two months, we have started to notice a weird problem. As user's passwords expire, they are prompted to change them. When they attempt to do so from Windows, they get a message saying "You do not have permission to change your password". However, the password IS changed. Both the Samba and LDAP Linux passwords are

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'm new to samba. Trying to get it running on Solaris on Intel using NIS+. I configured it with the --with-nisplus --with-nisplus-home and --with-automount. I don't seem to be able to get authentication to work. I've created the smbpasswd file from my nis+ tables, set the perms per the docs (encryption.txt to name one) and when I try to run smbpasswd to set a password for

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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I have a problem in which the Windows client isn't allowed to change the password in a direct manner. Using the Windows control panel, Passwords, I am only allowed to change the password by first changing the existing password to a blank password and then changing the blank password to the desired password. If I try to change the password directly I generate the error

Hello, I just start using Samba. I've installed Samba 2.0.2 on DG/UX. The file service is working fine. However, I've problem to synchronise the SMB and Unix passwords. I generated the smbpasswd file by using command # cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh >/opt/samba/private/smbpasswd I've changed the permissions of smbpasswd and smb.conf to allow a normal user to change

We've got Samba 2.0.6 running as a PDC, Windows 98 clients domain logins. Works beautifully except for changing password - when changing passwords through Control Panel | Passwords, Win98 says 'Unable to change password for Microsoft Networking because of the following error: Incorrect password'. As it happens, the supplied password is correct. smbd log as follows : [2000/03/13

I posted my original question below to the samba-ntdom list but it seems to be the wrong place to be discussing this problem so I'm moving my follow-up to these lists. Background...I used to be using smbpasswd and the "unix password sync", "password chat", and "password program" settings to keep my smb passwords and unix passwords in sync. This was working well

I have seen the log file and found NT_STATUS_WRONG_PASSWORD Check_oem_password: incorrect password length (-358407785) Any light on this???? Cheers Rafael Paris

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.

Ive just discovered that my previous email is wrong - the password sync does in fact work under Solaris fine. What is happening however is that when I create a new account, and call smbpasswd $user as root, it only updates the SMB password and not the Unix password as well. I though I could change my call to /bin/passwd in my new user creation scrip with /usr/local/samba/bin/smbpasswd -a, but as