similar to: smbpasswd or tdbsam? Which one?

OS = RHEL 5 samba version 3.0.33-3.29 openldap 2.3 is it possible to have linux users stored in an ldap directory and still use the passdb backend = smbpasswd. I have an existing smbpasswd password db and an existing set of linux users I have migrated the linux users to LDAP and authenticating successfully until I have time to get all samba credentials migrated to ldap i still need use the

ive got several hundred user accounts in NIS that i need to get into the smbpasswd file. since samba doesn't actually use NIS, but can only be in sync with it, what is the best way to get all these passwords into smbpaswd? I'd hate to have to have all users re-enter their passwords... anyone done this before? thanks in advance, alex ---

Hi Ivan, Not sure if you have found a solution or not since your post was back in February, but I thought I'd reply as this is the only thread I could find anywhere that mentions a problem that I was having on a recent installation of Arch Linux. A few minutes after boot all of my CIFS/Samba mounts would go offline and I'd get an error "The host is down." But I could unmount

Hi! When I enter smbpaswd as a normal user iget the following error: Connecting to 127.0.0.1 at port 139 machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : The specified password is invalid. Failed to change password for mgoeben and in the logs I got: ==> /var/log/samba/log.smb <== [2000/08/16 18:39:57, 3] locking/shmem_sysv.c:sysv_shm_open(707) Initialised IPC area of size

Hello all, Sorry for my long post but is a very urgent situation (is required to configure 3 PDC in less then 4 hours) and i have not enough time to read and experiment so i am posting here my problem. Please read entire message (is a little bit long). I have already one PDC using samba-3.0.10-1.4E.2 (on RHEL4) which is working fine with windows 9x and xp clients, excepting one thing. All

Hello all, I'm implementing Zimbra 4.5.6 and Samba PDC and a slave LDAP (with Samba too). Thanks for the great tutorial from Greg and friends. I put all the files shared in the slave LDAP (with Samba). So, client authenticated to the master LDAP Samba PDC, and then access the files in the slave server. All is running OK. There is only one obstacle: I cannot change Samba ACL using windows

I have set up several machine trusts with samba and they have worked correctly. However for some reason the last machine accounts I tried to make are not working correctly. Here is what I did to create the trust accounts: useradd -g machines -d /dev/null -c "ids8" -s /bin/false ids8$ passwd -l ids8$ (it even tells me that I have success) smbpaswd -a -m ids8 "ids8" of

Hello, I wanted to improve a bit Samba security, and add same new functions so I worked around its code. Changes that I've done are described below. If anyone is interested, and wants my patch for testing please send me a message. I'm not joining it here as it has 20kB gzipped. Patch is against clean Samba-1.9.18p8. ======================================== Changes to the Samba

I have a fairly old Samba server, 3.0.25, on CentOS 4.8. I'd like to update it to something more modern, so I grabbed the "Enterprise Samba" 3.5 RPMs for RHEL, and went to work on a test machine. After upgrading via "rpm -U ./*.rpm", starting nmbd and smbd, I can no longer log in to the domain, I get: netlogon_creds_server_check failed. Rejecting auth request from client

Hello to all you folks, I've got TWO questions. 1) I've been trying to password the use of my two laser printers so that printing has to be assisted by my computer attendant (we are losing too much paper and toner to people clicking print five to ten times). But, I have not figured out how to force passwords on my samba printer (HP LJ1200 running under cupsd and samba). Is it possible

Hi All, I just added three users to my tdbsam with "pdbedit -a -u username" (had to do "useradd" first). All three appeared in tdbsam as they should, as verified with "pdbedit -L". But, all three also appeared in /etc/samba/smbpasswd. This is not a mistake, they were not there before. Are "tdbsam" and "smbpasswd" linked? I am confused.

Hey, I have a fedora core 1 machine with samba 3 PDC. I switched the password backend ('passdb' ) from 'smbpasswd' to 'tdbsam'. The problem is that my win 98 machine stop mapping my home directory. I swtiched back to 'smbpasswd' and it works fine. 'net time \\server /set /yes' and 'net use p: \\server\apps' work perfectly. My logon.bat contains the

Hi, I want to set up squid (2.6.9) with Samba (3.0.24) using NTLM authentication. I don't want to authenticate against an AD server; I just want to authenticate against a smbpasswd backend without sending the password over the network in the clear. The squid server is on the same box a the Samba server providing file/print services to XP workstations. The primary way of using NTLM seems

Hi there, I'm trying to import a smbpasswd-file into a Samba 3.0 installation on Debian Sarge using tdbsam as sole passdb backend. Copying pdbedit's documentation I used pdbedit -i smbpasswd:/root/smbpasswd.old The error message returned was tdb_update_sam: Failing to store a SAM_ACCOUNT for [foo] without a primary group RID where foo is the username to be imported. This message was

Specs: RedHat 9 Samba V: 3.0.4 Clients: W2K and WinXP Pro smb.conf file: # Global parameters [global] workgroup = aharinc.com netbios name = CHIMERA server string = Chimera- Test PDC encrypt passwords = Yes passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u passwd chat = *New*password* %n\n *Retype*new*password* %n\n

As some of you may know, I'm trying to set up Samba BDC on a disk- and fan-less tiny mipsel_CPU router running OpenWRT distribution. I already managed to compile Samba 3.0.21a and OpenLDAP 2.3.18 for it, and they seem to work fine. The problem is, this tiny distribution for routers doesn't seem to have anything like Name Service Switch (NSS), and relies solely on /etc/passwd and

after many hours of tries, I am still stuck with a simple: I have Samba 3.0.1 ore running fine on a red hat 9.0 box (installed from RPM) when I try to join a domain I get the infamous invalid user name or bad password error from the Win2K SP2 machines. I am really getting lost here, I have checked the root password in smbpasswd database and have used the smbpasswd command, I still get that

One of the sticking points when using SaMBa is that two sets of passwords need to be maintained, one for SMB and the other for the host OS, usually a UNIX variant. A partial solution exists on some systems in the form of SMB-PAM modules. They let the UNIX like system validate passwords against the SMB password database. The problem is that, allegedly, you have to be on a WinXX box to change your

Hello According to my post "samba migration to another distro llinux" on samba lists I would like to make migration of samba from one machine to another. I can't find information how to transfer accounts,policies,users,domain SID and other options from PDC (tdbsam backend)(current server) to BDC (tdbsam backend)future server. I found some info but its about migration from

What's the best path to do this? I currently have a SAMBA3 domain controller using tdbsam and would like to migrate to Samba4 as an AD controller. I assume that this will require loading my existing user database into ldap. What's the best path for this? Should I look for a samba3 to samba4 migration, continuing to use tdbsam in samba4, and then convert to ldap, or convert my existing