I have Mandrake 7.2 with samba 2.0.7 installed.

My WinME workstation can login to the samba box and run the logon.bat. It maps drives and sync's the time to the linux/samba box.

My problem is that I can't change the password from the Windows machine.

I go into 'Control Panel / Passwords', click on the 'Change Windows Password' button, tick the box next to 'Microsoft Networking' then enter the old password and the new password twice.

It thens comes back and says 'The password you typed is not correct for Microsoft Networking, blah blah..'

I just tried to change the password again and it got worse.

I logged in via telnet using my normal user then tried to 'su -'

It wouldn't accept the root password but did accept the password I tried to change my samba user name to.

So it went like this:

Before:
root with password of root01
user1 with password of pass01

I tried to change my samba user password to test01

After:
root with password of test01
user1 with password of pass01

How would a samba user trying to change their password change the root's password? The user is an ordinary pleb user with no super user privlidges.

On the surface it sounds like a prob with smbpasswd. Check your smb.conf to see if/what your unix passwd sync is set to. (I don't have the man pages here...)

Did you add the users to the smbpasswd file? (SWAT is kinda handy for that)

I have the 'synchronise linux with SMB passwords' turned on.

I also have an entry in my smb.conf that goes like:
passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd

The reason I entred that line is because when I didn't testparm came back with:
ERROR: the 'unix password sync' parameter is set and the 'passwd program' (/bin/passwd) cannot be executed (error was No such file or directory).

I added the users to the smbpasswd file by going:
smbpasswd -a user1

hi hazza,
i wonder if u have the solution to this already,
maybe u can post them here.
i'm running into the same problem now.
i'm use RH7.1, samba 2.0.7.

thanks.

Yes I have found a solution... Upgrade to a recent distro.

I then use webmin to create the smbpasswd file for me.

Afterwards I customise a template smb.conf to match each situation.

Try turning the password sync with unix or linux off and use /usr/bin/smbpasswd instead of passwd. Might work.

I have Redhat9.0 with samba 3.0 installed.

My Wn2000 Professional worksstation can login to the samba box and run the logon.bat. It maps drives and sync's the time to the linux/samba box. I setup the Linux as a PDC Domain controller and the win2k
machine logs on to the Linux sambauser login and I can't see the samba user in the windows Control
Panel / Users and Passwords. How can i change my samba user pasword from my Win200 machine?


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rahman

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone has any information on this. I have Samba 3.035 as a PDC running on Fedora Core 2. I'd like to be able to have users change their passwords with WinXP. I thought a saw a thread about this but I can't seem to find it now.

Any help or direction would be apprecitated.

Same problem here... I am running Redhat 9 with samba 3.0.5rc1 acting as the PDC for a fewXP clients

i have these from lines in my smb.conf:
I tried changing passwd to smbpasswd but still cannot get it to work...

When i tried to change the password in XP, i get "You do not have permission to change your password"

Any help?

Did anyone get this working without a reinstall/upgrade?

I am also having this problem. My setup is a RH9 samba PDC. I cannot change paswords from WinXP.
Error:
Wrong password

Any ideas?