similar to: unable to open passdb database.

Many thanks for the help. > Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:57:24 +0100 > From: "rruegner" <robowarp@gmx.de> > Subject: Re: [Samba] unable to open passdb database. > To: "Ben Kim" <bkim@edsun.coe.tamu.edu>, <samba@lists.samba.org> > the log says that the passwd file was

I have a win2k domain ... 2 of the client machines are Red Hat (7.3 and 8.0). I set everything up to use the DC to authenticate ID/PW. Everything worked perfectly until a week or so ago ... Samba would automatically create a home folder and the whole nine yards. Now I can see the shares on the Samba machines, but I can't access them ... just prompts for the ID/PW over and over. I can mount

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 have been (unsuccessfully) trying to get this up and running for the past few days. I have successfully setup samba itself NUMEROUS times but this winbind stuff has me stumped. I have built a fresh box for this server using Turbo Linux server 6.5 and samba 2.2.2. I have followed all the docs and man pages that i could find. 1. I have samba compiled (using --with-winbind --with-pam) and

Help! After upgrading to 2.2.3a from 2.2.2, we have a strange problem that's happening. When users try to map a drive, it asks for the username/password even though we're using server authenticaiton. There are lots of messages in the log.<machine name> files complaining about not being able to open the passwd database [2002/05/06 09:52:47, 0]

I'm trying to set up a samba box at home to centralize my family's storage into one place. Every time I try to connect to the box I get an incorrect user name or password dialog and it doesn't matter what I put in but it won't let me connect. In the log files every time I connect I see something like (repeated several times)... [2003/07/05 13:20:11, 0]

what is the 'passwd chat' line for Samba 2.2.3a-12.3 on Debian Woody that enables password synchronisation with Windows 2000 clients in a domain? I currently have this in smb.conf but it doesn't work: unix password sync = yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n I get the Windows message

Hello! I have a samba fileserver (Debian Woody, Samba 2.2.3a) that I am trying to join into an NT domain (smbpasswd -j ...); the command says that it joined the domain successfully. Then I setup security=domain, workgroup name etc. as outlined in the samba howtos. However whenever I try to access a share on the Samba server I am prompted for a password (even though I already logged in through

Howdy all... I am trying to use two different samba servers in a test environment such that a Win98 SE user logs into his/her workstation, authenticates/authorizes themself via the PDC, and then mounts a different samba server to store his/her files. By files I *guess* I mean profile as this is where I assume that this user's personal files will end up. Question 1: Is this assumption that a

Hello everyone, I am trying to configure a Samba 2.2 server to allow users to mount their home directories (stored on a UNIX filesystem) from Windows after authenticating against a Windows 2000 Domain Controller. The Samba server is 2.2.3a compiled with acl support on Solaris 8. I think I am experiencing some (hopefully) basic configuration issues and can't seem to get it to work. I

I know I am getting tiresome to this list, but I can't see what I am doing wrong, which is obviously something. I am new to samba as far as setting it up as a PDC. I am not having trouble accessing sanba shares when I set my computer to be part of a workgroup, but when I try to configure samba server as a PDC, i get the following message: The account used is a computer account. Use

We currently have Samba installed on a Solaris 8 server. It is serving several fileshares. Within the last couple of months we have had an issue with connecting to the share from the XP desktops. On the same share it will work fine for a while and then all of a sudden when you try to mount the share it will ask for an ID and password (it normally does not). If you try again a few seconds later

Hi all, We are having some problems getting a solaris 9(sparc) file server running samba 2.2.2 to authenticate aginst a windows NT 4 PDC. Let me say first that this was all working at one time, then we had some data corrumption on our NFS mounted /usr/local, and had to restore from tape. Due to some issues with solaris ufsdump and ufsrestore, stuff was not quite put back properly. We do

I'm trying to use the documentation found with Samba-2.2.4 to set up a samba server under RH linux 7.2 (kernel 2.4.9-21) to join an existing NT domain for a couple of weeks with no success. I obtained the samba 2.2.4 source code, compiled with the following options to configure: --with-winbind --prefix=/usr/local/samba --with-smbwrapper --with-pam --with -pam_smbpass After compiling, I

Greetings. We are seeing an intermittent problem with Samba on our RedHat 8.0 file server (also seen with RedHat 7.3 prior to the upgrade to 8.0). Normally, a Windows XP machine can connect to the file server's shares and work on them. However, sometimes after being up for a while, connections from the XP machine to the file server no longer work. In particular, on the XP side, the following

Hi I am trying to find someone who can help me with configuring samba as a Win2k PDC, I have read various How-TO's and the online reference material but some of it has conflicting advice. I wondered if someone who has actually managed to configure and uses samba as a Win2k PDC and logon server could email me to help me with this issue. Javid Mahdavi

Hi I have a Linux (RH 7.0), and I'he configured on smb server one share to only one NT user. This user is a tool used for file-transfer from MVS to Windows using UNC file name convention. How I don't know the user's password, I using SERVER security on smb.conf to validate the user. The server that validate the user is the same where file-transfer tool runs. During the workdays, it

Hi all. I'm having a strange intermittent problem with Samba 2.2.8a losing connectivity with our PDC and BDC. We are currently having a problem with our PDC restarting due to a bug check about 2-3 times a month. When this happens and the PDC is restarted or anytime it is restarted, we are not able to map shares on any of our 5 servers using samba 2.2.8a - the fix is to kill smbd and nmbd

Hi! Well, I have a Linux machine (RedHat 9.0) with samba on it and a Win ME on the other machine and I want to share a partition for music, read-only. (Won't be hard, is mounted read-only) and a transfer share where I can write to, too. My config file looks as follwing: # Samba config file created using SWAT # from 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) # Date: 2003/08/04 23:05:42 # Global parameters

Okay - I've got samba working as a PDC with and ldap backend. I want to have some users not be in ldap (like the built in stuff like cyrus, mail, lp etc) I can get that to work with the pam_ldap and pam_unix but pam_smbpass doesn't seem to return user_unknown as i expect for users who are not in the ldap database does this make sense? --- pam_smb_passwd.c 12 Feb 2002 15:56:19