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Hello, I just wasted several hours trying to figure out why I could not change Samba passwords from Windows XP computers. I'm posting here so that there is some form of documentation about this on the web. My setup is basically this: - Samba 3.3.2 (running under Ubuntu 9.04) - OpenLDAP user database - Full O.S. support for OpenLDAP auth, using nsswitch and PAM. (My client

I installed samba-3.0.28-0 I set "maximum password age". pierluigim password has expired and so he would like to change it from XP prof client, but he receives this message: "Lacking permission to change the password". The global configuration of my smb.conf is: ------------------- [global] name resolve order = wins bcast hosts ldap ssl = No passwd chat = *New*Password*

I having been trouble by this for a few days now and was wondering if anyone else has had any luck with this? I am currently running Samba 2.2.6pre2 on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE I have successfully set up samba to be the PDC I am unsuccessfully trying to change the passwords on the W2k box and I am recieving the error that the user name/password are incorrect make sure the caps lock is not on. When I

Hi, I recently migrated to a Samba3x domain. One issue that has been reported to me is that XP users cannot change their password from their PC. I have done some searching and I haven't seen a straight forward answer to this. My config is ldap primary + Samba PDC on host A ldap slave + samba BDC on host B I see this error in the machine log when someone attempts to change their password:

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

Hi there guys. I've been able to set up a samba domain as a PDC using tdbsam profiles seems to work fine, users can login to the domain and so on. The problem that I found is that I do not know how to set it up to allow users to change their password from the Windows Boxes. The get, you have not permission to change you password. Allow me to post my configurtation and some loggin.. With

Hi, When I try to change my Password with XP's Password-Change-Box, I get the following error in log.smbd: [2004/03/21 11:16:06, 0] passdb/pampass.c:smb_pam_chauthtok(709) PAM: UNKNOWN PAM ERROR (19) for User: testuser [2004/03/21 11:16:06, 0] passdb/pampass.c:smb_pam_passchange(865) smb_pam_passchange: PAM: Password Change Failed for user testuser! From my smb.conf: # PDC

I have a samba pdc running 3.0.4. I have users logging into the profile server and wanting to change there password. However when they try to change the password it asks them for the old and new password but says they do not have permission to change the password. I can change the password for them when I log into the pdc as root but when I try to do it as user it gives the error: machine

Hi, I'm using SuSE 8.2 and I got the source for samba 3.0.2a and I tried to install it. ./configure (w/o any arguments) went ok so I type make and it gives me the following errors: Linking bin/smbd auth/pampass.o(.text+0x59): In function `smb_pam_error_handler': : undefined reference to `pam_strerror' auth/pampass.o(.text+0xcb6): In function `smb_pam_end': : undefined reference

Hello, I have setup a Samba server with CentOS 5.2 and Samba 3.0.28-1.el5_2.1 (the CentOS included versi?n). I have configured Samba as a PDC following "Samba-3 by example" chapter 3, "Secure Office Networking". No DNS or DHCP active, as far as for now this is just a test environment. Most of it works fine, but trying to change user passwords for a MS-Windows test computer

I've just found out today that my system won't let users (2000 and XP clients) change their passwords. >From their consoles they get permission denied messages. Looking at the logs its clearly a Samba/PAM interaction issue but all looks OK in the pam.d directory. I've spent a few hours searching online but can't find anything that match's this scenario. Extract from users

Salim, Yes I do have permission to run the passwd command as a local user, I can change the unix password just fine. It is when I do the smbpasswd command that that error comes up. Thanks for looking at this! Tony --- Salim Zakharia <Salim@mdsuae.ae> wrote: > Try to check if users have permission to run: > /usr/bin/passwd let user > try to change his password locally on

I have 6 domain controllers that were running samba-tng using openldap, Six months ago I converted one of the controllers to Samba3.0.20 and exported my ldap information to be compatible with Samba, every works fine. Specifically I could change passwords at the local windows machine. Two weeks ago I converted my other 5 controllers to Samba3.0.21b everything works except changing passwords at

Hi, I used to have a set of samba shares working fine on a Centos 4 machine, accessed by XP clients and authenticated against a 2003 SBS server. Then I did a yum upgrade and a week later noticed that the seldom-used SMB shares have stopped working. No other changes to the Centos server, and no domain changes. The XP clients now just keep prompting for authentication. A wireshark trap shows

Hi I have a customer who is having a problem with Samba password changes. The samba server (server12) is set up as a PDC for a WIndows domain with XP clients. Samba is Version 3.0.26a-SerNet-RedHat. OS is Centos 3.9. There is also a separate mail server (server56) running FC6 which uses NIS for user validation. NIS server is running on server12. Generally speaking, everything is working and

Hi!! I'm not able to change a user password on a workstation and with smbpasswd when I'm log. ex: [usertest@pc070 usertest]$ smbpasswd Old SMB password: New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : RAP86: The specified password is invalid. Failed to change password for usertest so when I'm root, that's work The log

Hello, we migrate from Samba 2.2 to Samba 3.020b. We have the problem now, that some clients can not connect to the Samba Server. In the log there are messages like that: [2006/02/23 08:49:20, 2] smbd/sesssetup.c:setup_new_vc_session(704) setup_new_vc_session: New VC == 0, if NT4.x compatible we would close all old resources. [2006/02/23 08:49:20, 2] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_auth(514)

from samba 3.0.9 to 3.0.13 I can not access my shares from a NT4 box as usual before upgrading. I can access samba shares from linux via mount //server/testuser /mnt -o username=testuser,password=testpass as before. Even the newest version (3.0.14a) from samba.org doesnt't help. What has happened to samba ??? Any hints ?? Thanks for your thoughts, G?tz.

Hello all, we currently do have a problem with samba 3.3.4 on AIX 5.3. We have set up the samba system to integrate in our AD Domain. Integration was successfull (net ads join), wbinfo executes with parameters -ugt without any problems. Our smb.conf content follows at the end of this mail. We have defined just one share as follows: [smbtest] writeable = yes path = /gpfs/fbb/ls/cip valid users

Hi all I have set my Samba server up to join an AD realm. Winbind is working fine and I am able to use it for authentication as needed. When I try to connect to one of my shares via a Windows client, I get the following error: [2004/11/04 11:57:54, 0] auth/pampass.c:smb_pam_account(573) smb_pam_account: PAM: UNKNOWN PAM ERROR (9) during Account Management for User: MYDOMAIN+room1 [2004/11/04