similar to: howto sync unix passwd & samba passwd?

Hello Everyone! I've spent quite a bit trying to get these shares to work just right. I'll past the output of my smb.conf at the end of this message. If anyone has any advice on this, that would be great. My first problem is that I'm trying to sync up my /etc/passwd with the /etc/samba/smbpasswd file. (I'm using Mandrake 9.0 and Samba 2.2.6-1.0.pre2.2.mdk. Mandrake puts 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

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 trying to read the mails of virtual users by setting the value of mail_location to /mail/virtual/%d/%u/Maildir. however, the %d does not resolve to the domain. i am using ldap as my passdb and userdb. what am i missing here? using this telnet session, | $ telnet localhost imap | Trying 209.235.254.94... | Connected to localhost | Escape character is '^]'. | * OK Dovecot

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

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

Hello, I have a strange problem with my samba server. When I try to connect with my (Windows)client and samba ask for the password, it's only accepting my linux-user password, not my samba-user password (set with smbpasswd and as root with smbpasswd <user>). And now the strange about it. When i change my sambapassword with smbpasswd, and try to login from my client, then the samba-user

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 @ ( \/ __)_

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 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

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 =

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

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

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

We have samba (3.0.22) configured as 'standalone server' type and security mode is 'user'. I have configured 'smb.conf' so that windows xp users may change their passwords from windows box (using ctrl+alt+del) and I got it work (regardless some sources which say that is not possible with standalone server). The remaining problem is that now users should specify a host to

Hello Samba people, I have been successfully using Samba for several years, across many minor versions of Samba across many minor versions of Linux kernel 2.4.x and 2.6.x, against a Windows 2000 and then in the past couple of years 2003 AD Domain. This morning, something broke... Setting the stage: RedHat Fedora based Linux box, FC8, updated over time using 'yum update'...,

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

I'm not sure when the last time I run smbpasswd to change the user password, however when I run it only change NT and LM hash attribute, not the unix passwd attributes. smb.conf: ... passdb backend = ldapsam:"ldap://127.0.0.1" unix password sync = yes passwd program = /usr/local/sbin/passwd.pl %u passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n

Hi, I use samba 3.0.26a on fedora 8 as a fileserver for a win 2k3 domain. This has worked fine for about 2 months without any problems. However I came to the server 3 days ago and the harddrive was 100% full. On checking I found 60gb of core dumps in the winbind folder. I did a lot of searching and couldnt find anything relevent for this release. I tried upgrading samba to 3.0.28 (fc8

Hi: I've been trying to set up external password sync to Google Apps -- and went so far as to write a script, before realizing "unix password sync" and "passwd program" etc., don't seem to be working in samba 4.2.0 rc2 in AD DC mode. I also stumbled on this prior list posting saying unix password sync doesn't work -- though the MAN pages suggest this is supported: