similar to: Error setting up Samba with LDAP

I've scoured the mailing list archives and the internet...has anyone actually figured out how to enforce strong passwords when using Samba and LDAP as a PDC? My users are allowed to change their Windows XP passwords, how do I enforce the use of strong passwords (either locally or globally)? -- *Jason Baker */IT Coordinator/ *Glastender Inc.* 5400 North Michigan Road Saginaw, Michigan

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but here goes. I just put together a PDC using Samba. I have given users the ability to change their passwords (once every 7 days) if they wish. I used to keep a list of usernames and passwords in a spread-sheet, so I could keep track of the servers that I needed to update with the correct password if anything changed. That being said.

I just got Samba + LDAP up and running as a PDC. If I list the users in the LDAP directory with pdbedit -L I see: root:0:test nobody:99:nobody aster$:1001:Computer toast$:1002:TOAST$ fordprefect:1003:Test Account Shouldn't there be an Administrator account and no root? I don't want my Linux root account even remotely confused or associated with a Samba/LDAP

I have a samba PDC set up and configured. I have been doing tests and everything was working fine. I was able to set "User must change password" to today's date and it would prompt the user that their password has expired when logging into windows xp. I could then enter a new password and be on my way. Now when I set the password to "User must change password", when I

I have a working Samba PDC, I can log in and out from a windows xp workstation. I recently upgraded to 3.0.25b-33 and now, when I add a new user, I get: The system cannot log you on due to the following error: A device attached to the system is not fuctioning Please try again or consult your system administrator I have network connectivity. I was able to join this machine to the

I have Samba 3.0.24 running on CentOS 4 as a PDC with an LDAP backend. When I first set everything up, I could join workstations to the domain automatically with the Windows Network ID Wizard. Now when I try to join a workstation I get: Your computer could not be joined to the domain because the following error has occurred: The user name could not be found. If I add the computer

I submitted this question to the Postfix maillist and they suggested that I post to this one. Here's my issue: I have a Postifx email system running on a CentOS 4 box, with Dovecot pop3 and imap. Last week, one of my users reported to me that about a dozen emails suddenly showed up in his in box (as unread messages), but none of them were addressed to him. Under further investigation,

Now that I have my Samba PDC up and running, I will soon be building a NAS for network file storage, backups and running virtual machines and tests. I need to make some shares on this machine that network users can access for file storage. I can either design it to be a Samba Domain Member and set up shares that would be authenticated via the PDC or I could simply mount the shares to the PDC

I have a samba PDC with LDAP backend running on CentOs 4. Everything is working fine, but my log watch report showed two users with the same SID. I checked it out and it appears that ROOT and the samba machine ASTER$ both have the same SID. If I do a pdbedit -Lv I get this: --------------- Unix username: aster$ NT username: aster$ Account Flags: [W ] User SID:

I created a BDC for my network, running a slave LDAP server. Do I need specify the same workgroup as the PDC in the smb.conf? I was thinking I'd put it on a different workgroup just for organizational purposes. -- *Jason Baker */IT Coordinator/ *Glastender Inc.* 5400 North Michigan Road Saginaw, Michigan 48604 USA 800.748.0423 Phone: 989.752.4275 ext. 228 Fax: 989.752.4444

I am trying to set up the Default Profile in XP for use with Samba. I am following the instructions in Samba 3 by Example. I have my profdata folder setup and shared, I have my NETLOGON/Default User folder created and populated with the Default Profile I created from the Hive using regedt32 in windows XP. I created a new user for Samba and attempted to log on to the domain to test the default

I have been having some problems since I updated from Samba 3.0.23 to 3.0.25b. I have installed the latest version of smbldap-tools but I am still not able to make certain changes to a user's account. I have created a new user named JROLFE. After I set up a new user, I will set it so they are required to change their password when they first login. I usually do this through LDAP Account

I am running Samba as a PDC with an LDAP backend and all is working good, except now I am trying to set up a Samba Domain Member server with shares on it that will be authenticated via the PDC, but for some reason it is not working. One interesting thing I notice is that when I run pdbedit -Lv on the PDC I get results like this: Unix username: test NT username: test

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I have had a samba PDC up and running for about a month now with no issues, this weekend I added a BDC and it seems that all my clients are now logging into the BDC automatically instead of the PDC. I had to mount the homes from the PDC to the BDC so that users can have access to their home directories and set the path to the profiles directory on the BDC to that of the PDC. I also had to

I have a Samba PDC with LDAP running on a CentOs 4.4 machine. When I first had it all configured, everything worked fine, but now for some reason, login scripts will not run on the client (even though they have access to the shares the login script is trying to map) and I cannot join client machines to the domain automatically using the Windows XP Network Identification Wizard. When I try to

I have a Samba PDC, running on Centos 4. The samba version is 3.0.23d.30. I have an LDAP backend. Everything seems to be running fine. I recently configured a BDC, to help with load balancing and to act as a backup in the event the PDC went down. Before I installed the PDC, when a new user logged into the domain, their home directory on the PDC was automatically mapped to the drive letter U.

My root account keeps getting locked out automatically. I am running Samba 3.0.25b on a CentOS server, as PDC with LDAP backend. I have accounts set to lock after 8 un-successful login attempts. I zeroed out the bad password count, and then in less than a few seconds the account gets locked again and a /pdbedit -Lv -u root /yields the following: Unix username: root Logon time:

Greetings, I am running samba-3.0.10-1.4E.9 installed from rpm on CentOS 4.4. I have it configured as a PDC. It is using the /passdb backend = tdbsam/ backend. I am using /pdbedit/ to make some configuration changes to user passwords. I would like to expire a users password, so that they are required to change it the next time they log in. From all that I have read in on-line resources

I recently set up a backup domain controller using Samba 3.0.23. I have a Samba PDC already running, and all is working fine, but once I added the BDC, now when people log in to their windows account, their home directory is now being mapped to their home on the BDC (which is empty) instead of the PDC. Conf files from each below: PDC Samba Conf: [global] unix charset = LOCALE