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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

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, 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, 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, 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)

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 everyone... Can somebody help me? I've sent this last Sunday but nobody has replied. Cheers, Rafael -----Mensaje original----- De: Rafael Paris [mailto:rparis@hotelmaruma.com] Enviado el: Domingo, 18 de Julio de 2004 06:58 p.m. Para: 'samba@lists.samba.org' Asunto: PDBEDIT USE - ACCOUNT FLAGS AND POLICIES Good afternoon everyone. I'm trying to set account control flags and

Good afternoon you all. I'm running a redhat enterprise 3.0. I have manually installed samba-3.0.4 as a pdc. On a different computer i'm trying to set up a bdc but i get "Unable to find a suitable server" Am I missing something? Thanks in advanced... Rafael Paris Gerente de Sistemas Casino e-mail: rparis@hotelmaruma.com pagina web/page: www.hotelmaruma.com Telefono/Phone: 0058

In our company we have two separated domains, I mean, there's not trust relationship at all. I can see the windows 2000 domain in the browse list but not the computers that belong to that domain. How should I set up my samba server or the windows client to fix the small problem??? Cheers, Rafael Paris Gerente de Sistemas Casino e-mail: rparis@hotelmaruma.com pagina web/page:

Hi guys, I have a strange problem. I can authenticate a user with wbinfo from my domain controller (security =3D ads), however when I try and map a share, the authentication fails. i.e. # wbinfo -a 'COAL+bcanglo%bcpass' plaintext password authentication succeeded challenge/response password authentication succeeded # smbclient '\\xxxxxxx\timtest' -U 'COAL\bcanglo'

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

I just downloaded and installed Samba 3.0.3 and it still doesn't fix the problem caused by the windows update discussed in KB828741. Still getting the message "You do not have permission to change your password" on some boxes, or "The system cannot change your password because the domain DOMAIN is not available" on others. Uninstalling the update still works, however this

Dear Herman, We had the same problems over here. The problem seems to be related to Windows Hotfix KB828741. Removing the hotfix through the control panel solved it for us. Greetz, Jerome Borsboom >>BTW, i use samba 302 & 303 pre2.. >> >>Thursday, April 22, 2004, 2:33:16 PM, you wrote: >> >>CBM> well the subject tell's it.. >> >>CBM>

Hello, I have problems with my Samba servers. The PDC in the Windows domain is a NT4 and has the patch KB828741 installed on it. 1st server : HP-UX 10.20 with Samba 2.2.8a ------------ workgroup = FR-MON netbios name = TIMIX security = domain encrypt passwords = Yes password server = * All shares are OK when accessed from Windows workstations. But from