similar to: mksmbpasswd.sh and passwd sync problems...

I see that mksmbpasswd.sh (plus a little editing) would be a good way to set up users with "NO PASSWORD" in bulk. But suppose I don't want the risk of the "NO PASSWORD" approach. Now somebody with root access must run smbpasswd for each user they want to activate. But can't I just do this anyway (with the -a 'add user' option), without ever having run

All I have my samba setup working with PDC roaming profiles etc, but so I dont have to manually type everyone's password into smbpasswd. Could someone please email me mksmbpasswd.sh, for the life of me I cant find it anywhere to download it. Im running Solaris 8, such a pain if I don't have it. Thanks nn advance Philip M Grisedale

Hi all, Quick question, is it possible to take an existing /etc/passwd file and run it through mksmbpasswd.sh (or some other script) to update a smbpasswd file? I am asking this because everytime we change a password or add or delete usernames on a machine, it would seem we have to do the same thing to change th samba password file, and I'm hopeing there is an easier way..... thanks, jeff

Hi, I'm using samba-3.0.28-0.fc8. I'm trying to build a file server for 100 users. I created a perl script that automatically adds the 100 users plus their passwords with success. Now I'm having difficulty creating a script using the smbpasswd command because passwords must be entered in stdin. I also tried smbpasswd -s option but it asks passwd in stdin. Is there a way that I can use

Hi all, Reading through ENCRYPTION.txt it says to do the following: cat /etc/passwd | mksmbpasswd.sh >/usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd However, on my Samba-2.05a install (onto RH 6.0), /usr/local/samba doesn't exist. Instead, all the files listed in ENCRYPTION.txt and WinNT.txt are in the /usr/bin directory. Amongst other things, this means I can't set the recommended security

Hallo, i installed samba V2.0.3 on a linux server in a company. for better security i will use encypted passwords. for synchronisation of the unix password file and the samba password file i tried out the script mksmbpasswd script. my security settings at the server are easy and i set the permissions of the unix passwd file at 774 and also my smbpasswd file at 744. starting the script with the

Hi, I have samba installed on my Linux system (Red Hat 7.2), and Windows 98 on another PC as a Samba client. Samba works great if PlainTextPassword is enabled. However, if PlainTextPassword is disabled on Windows client, connection to the Samba shares no longer accepted. I believe I've done everything in order to make encrypt passwd working: * I converted /etc/passwd to

I 'm currently running a SUN SparcStation with Solaris 2.7 and Samba 2.0.3 Samba runs as domain master and i got security=user and i enabled plain text password on PCs but those Win98 boxes are unable to change their password ( password fail) So i want to try with encrypted password but i can't find mksmbpasswd.sh. Can anyone tell me where to find it ( NOT in source please, i tried

While we do sync our /etc/passwd whenever /etc/smbpasswd is changed via the Samba sync option that does not seem to be possible the other way round: I just want a /etc/smbpasswd generated from my /etc/passwd with the correct passwords as used for the UniX login... Is that possible ? Regards, -- /(__ __|\ Lars Steinke, Research Student @ ( \/ __)_

Never mind, I figured this one out (I think!). Here is what I ran [System: RedHat 7.0/Samba 2.0.7ssl on P-90] cat /etc/passwd | /usr/bin/mksmbpasswd.sh >> smbpasswd (After backing-up the current 'smbpasswd', of course) This seemed to do the trick, however, all of the accounts where disabled by default. I figured this to be the intended behavior (for security with system

Could somebody please explain just how one is supposed to set up samba users, groups and passwords so connections can be established to Win2k clients to connect to FBSD samba server for file sharing and to use cups for printing. I am afraid that the manuals and config files and various examples I have found on the Internet are quite confusing. How is the Windows username/passord related to

mksmbpasswd.sh does not create accounts with the X flag in the password flags field. Does this X matter, and if so, what does it mean? It's not in the man page. ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | | Ryan Novosielski - Jr. UNIX Systems Admin |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| | novosirj@umdnj.edu - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent. | IST/ACS - NJMS Medical

Hi I hope I've posted this to the correct place. I've installed Samba 2.2.4 on a Caldera Open Unix 8 server, and created a basic smbd.conf file. When I launch smbd as a daemon, I'm getting the following in the log file: passdb/secrets.c: (43) failed to open /usr/lib/samba/private/secrets.tdb passdb/machine_sid.c: (163) pdb_generate_sam_sid: Failed to store generated machine SID

I followed almost step by step Stephen's suggesions but I wasn't able to have samba working the way I need. The following is what I put in my smb.conf file. #================== Global Settings ========================== [global] workgroup = Rm-Soluzioni server string = Samba Server guest account = pcguest security = user log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m max log size =

Hello All, I am using Linux6.0(running samba) as a file server on my network, everything is good when I configure samba authenticate on other machine such as WinNT4.0. But when I have configured samba authenticate on itself (security = user) I received message error "smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(506) Account for user 'david' was disabled". In this mode I created

Greetings to all once again, This is request for help message number 2. I have a hpux 10.20 machine that is NOT TRUSTED that is there are passwords in the /etc/password file. I'm trying to authenticate winnt 4.0 and win95 clients to this server. I have added the following parameters to my smb.conf file: encrypt passwords = yes smb passwd file = /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd I have

Hello, I have comfigured samba-3.0.23c-2 server on CentOS-5, but when i was logging in from the client system, even if I donot provide password and hit enter key, the client is logging in as Anonymous user. Samba server should not allow for Anonymous login. (I am configuring linux (Server) to linux (Client) i am not using windows) 1) The contents of /etc/samba/smb.conf file as follows,

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:

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?

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