similar to: password aging in Samba 3

Hello Group, I've been reading many posts but i still don't have the answer to how to force a password change or set a password lifetime. I'm using w2k clients which connect to a samba PDC version 3.0.10 on a basic SunOS 5.8 system, no ldap or so. syncing the ux-passwords and the smb-passwords works perfect, but i can't get it working to force users to change passwords. The

Hello people! I'd like to know about a practical guide which helps to migrate users from a perfect working Samba PDC running with tdbsam backend to a new backend to LDAP. Does "pdbedit -i xxx -e xxx" make all the job? My network is growing and I need a directory service to help find people so I'd like to see a LDAP server running well with Samba without rebuild my user

question on pdbedit - when using it for a migration - existing data is stored in tdbsam. pbdedit -i tdbsam -e ldapsam It wants to take existing machine accounts and put them into an ou=Computers. I'd rather it put them in ou=People. Samba version is 3.09 Thanks....... Jon Johnston Creative Business Solutions IBM, Microsoft, Novell/Suse, Sophos Consultants http://www.cbsol.com

Hello I've installed Fedora Core 3 (Test 3, kernel 2.6.8x), with Samba 3.0.8 and OpenLDAP 2.2.13 . I've smb.conf, slapd.conf, ldap.conf, /etc/pam.d/system-auth, nsswith.conf almost same as described on Idealx site. I've very strange thing. If I add user ( for this operation I use smbldap-tools), I can log on by this user at my unix host (for example by ssh), I can logon by this user

In the Samba How-To Chapter 13 it says: " The Administrator Domain SID Please note that when configured as a DC, it is now required that an account in the server's passdb backend be set to the domain SID of the default Administrator account. To obtain the domain SID on a Samba DC, run the following command: root# net getlocalsid SID for domain FOO is:

I need to painlessly migrate on old Samba 2.2.x installation to a new server running 3.0.x (3.0.14a for now). Time is of the essence as a hardware problem is causing intermittent operation of the old server that seems to be getting worse (actually it is looking doubtful that it will be back up at this point). I do have a backup of the smb.conf, the Samba .tdb files, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow.

Hello fellow list members, does anyone knows of a good HOWTO (or a book) for setting up Samba as a PDC? I have been dealing around with the Samba HOWTO collection, but to be honest, this is a hard job. There are some errors in it and descriptions are not this good. I even don't know what all the tools are for. I'm really experienced in Linux server stuff, but this one drives me mad.

Hi, i never post in this list before becouse all the developers did a great job before, but now i have a problem. I used samba 3.0.x for a long time without any problem with openldap as passwd backend, now with samba 3.0.12 there are stange message when i try to change account's passwd: # smbpasswd Administrator New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: account_policy_get: tdb_fetch_uint32

Ok...I can't believe I'm still struggling with this!!! I've setup a SAMBA server using ARCH Linux 0.7 (Wombat) *what a distro!!* and everything is fine except when it comes to adding machines to the domain (aaarrrgghh). When I try to do it via windows, I get "the domain is no longer available". So I add a machine account manually, then go to windows and walla, I get the

I have got tdbsam as backend in smb.conf passdb backend = tdbsam When user change password from windows XP file passdb.tdb schould change date because was updated, but I have still the same date IX 18 10:30. [root@serwer private]# ls -al razem 76 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 IX 11 20:25 . drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 XI 2 15:14 .. -rw------- 1 root root 36864 IX 25 07:57 passdb.tdb -rw-------

Samba version 2.999+3.0cvs20020906-1 for Debian Somehow the Samba password is aging and is requiring a reset once a month for a couple of users. I can't see anything in the man pages to indicate that the passwords age, so how is Samba doing it, and how do I stop this behavior? One user is on Windows 2000 and the other on Windows XP. The Windows passwords are not aging and neither are

Hello All, I think I touched on this subject on another thread when I was having problems joining a WIN2k SP3 machine to the domain. Anyway, does anyone know of a way to modify machine accounts in the new format .tdb. The old way was pretty simple as it only required one to modify a text file like smbpasswd. I'd like to know what machine accounts I have listed in this file and simply

Is there any way to do this with Samba and LDAP? What I'd like is to be able to, at a minimum, force minimum password length, mixture of letters and numbers, and at least two 'special characters'... Is this doable with Samba using LDAP for authentication? If not, is it doable using other authentication means? Thanks, -- Charles

An intermittent need to connect to a CentOS4 development box from a MS-Win2K workstation using X-Windows has developed here. However, I cannot seem to find a cheap (read free) X-windows client for MS- Windows to accommodate this. This seems very odd to me, displaying no doubt my profound ignorance of the issues involved. The few shareware versions that I have located expect registration

Greetings. I have just upgraded to samba 3.0.25a (from 3.0.24 AFAIR). I have also upgraded schema file in openldap's configuration directory. As I have had some more time I have discovered sambaMaxPwdAge and that it may be read with pdbedit in human readable form. Great :-) But what if I would like to force a user to change her password right at next login? I have tried to set

Hi, since nobody answered my previous post I'm hoping to get an answer for this one, I have a working samba PDC with LDAP backend, recently i tried to add a W2k Workstation to the domain using root account and it returned with a wrong password, but i am able to login using the same account to the server, I've tried changing the password to join the doain and it worked again, but I'd

I''m rigging up some virtual machines in VMware to test out a new production configuration. Up till now I''ve been using Ubuntu Breezy Server distribution pre- installed on dedicated boxes by the hosting company, but in this scenario I am free to choose whatever OS I want. I''ve had some problems with Ubuntu Breezy (likes to call fastgi - fcgid etc.) and a low

All, First off I would like to say the book "The Official Samba-3 HowTO and Reference Guide" is awesome I purchased it off Amazon a couple of weeks ago. Ok now on to my problem. I have samba installed and configured and joined the domain no problem. When I run wbinfo -u I can see my domain users, when I run wbinfo -g I can see all my domain groups, BUT if I run

Hi, I have the following directory shared for the user "pcbadmin". He/she can mount and read/write without any difficulty: [pcbdata] comment = PCB Design Files path = /home/pcbadmin/pcbdata valid users = pcbadmin public = no writable = yes Question: How can I make the same directory only readable by the rest of the users ? TIA, Ben

Hello, I try to force users to change password once a given period using his command: #pdbedit -P "maximum password age" -C 300 It works only for "new" users (users created after first first launch of this command), "old" users are not affected, passwords doesn't expire. How to do his for "old" users? I would be pleased for your help.