similar to: Unable to open passdb???

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 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'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

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

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

Others have posted already about this, but so far nobody in the know has responded: I am getting an invalid error message when changing user passwords from the client machine (for example, by using ctl-alt-del and selecting "change password") from at least one Windows XP pro workstation (my own -- I have yet to escelate this further, in case I figure out that it's something simple.)

still digging at this: [2003/01/20 14:26:38, 2] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:ldapsam_connect_system(421) ldap_connect_system: succesful connection to the LDAP server [2003/01/20 14:26:38, 4] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:ldapsam_open(472) The LDAP server is succesful connected [2003/01/20 14:26:38, 4] passdb/pdb_ldap.c:ldapsam_getsampwnam(1573) We don't find this user [Administrator] count=0 [2003/01/20

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've got the following script that I want to run every time a user logs in to the Samba server, whether it be from a mapped share or by opening a telnet session into the server and logging in that way. Here's the script: #!/bin/sh DOMAIN=`echo $USER | awk -F_ '{print $1}'` USERNAME=`echo $USER | awk -F_ '{print $2}'` if [ $DOMAIN = "MA" ]; then if [

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

Hello everyone, Just kind of a generalized question, and looking more for caveats than anything else. We're getting ready to implement the latest and greatest release of Samba on one of our Sun servers. Unfortunately, we haven't determined which one yet, but we only have two, so it's not a big deal. Anyways, I've set up Samba successfully on Linux on multiple occasions, the

Hi all, I am sharing a directory by using SAMBA Ver. 2.2.3a on a HP-UX 11.11 for MS XP-Clients. Allthough conntecting works fine, I get the follwing log entry everytime a client connects: [2003/12/30 10:11:02, 0] smbd/chgpasswd.c:(939) check_plaintext_password: getsmbpwnam returned NULL smb.conf looks as follows: # Global parameters [global] coding system = client code page = 850 code page

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