Re: [SLE] smbpasswd flakiness

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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 05:25:42 -0200

I am not a SAMBA pro - however I have set it up a few times. Some comments
here that may be way off topic for you, anyway here goes...

From your problem description I would guess either the order of the SAMBA
password authentication technique entries in your smb.conf file or the
SAMBA authentication order of the entries themselves in your nsswitch.conf
file may be incorrect.

Be careful configuring this as you could lock yourself out of your system.

If you are on a Windows domain type network and if that is why you are
using SAMBA then checkout the document:

  http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/2/2004/03/4/155887

This was the best document I read and it helped me immediatley.

If you are not on a Windows domain based network - then try creating her
user in YaST2 or via the command line tools first. Then create the user
with the SMB tools as you have done. This is my suggestion - it is not an
official suggestion ;-)

On my windows domain, when SAMABA is configured correclty. SAMBA sucks in
all my windows accounts and creates its own SAM files etc. from the Windows
Domain. I have a script that then goes and reads all the domain accounts
and creates the home directories for all the Windows users (before they
login - bit of a pain) with the correct permissions. After that the users
can login with their Windows user ID's and password - no problem.

It has to work this way for me to make the system feasable and reduce
additional Admin overhead.

From your post I am not sure how or why you are using SAMABA. In my post I
have assumed you are on a Windows based network.

I had to do a lot of reading to get my SAMABA right. Once you get the hang
of it I found it works well.

Hope this helps somewhere...

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                                               Subject: [SLE] smbpasswd flakiness
                      07/28/04 06:13
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I have a working samba server on 9.1 in the sense that it works for me.
But
when as root I add my wife using

#smbpasswd -a renee
  etc

it writes an entry in /etc/samba/smbpasswd, but she cannot log in. She
also
cannot change her password invoking smbpasswd as a user. When I give never
NO PASSWORD and have her as a user change her password

renee% smbpasswd
 etc

an error is returned saying the password is incorrect.

I can't find anything like this using google except for someone complaining
that a scrip was writing "LTC" in the /etc/samba/smbpasswd string instead
of
the correct "LCT". But I don't have this problem.

I updated to the latest samba from apt, with no change in this behavior.

I would be grateful for any help, thanks, Henry Harpending

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