As I understood it he should be authenticating the logon using the windows server (active directory) and not storing users and passwords locally (on the linux box). I didn't recognize the tdbsam entry in the config file though.
If what I have said is true, do I still need to enable the account? If so, how? Thanx! -----Original Message----- From: Gary Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 18, 2006 4:58 PM To: Tim Gessner; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Samba] tdbsam info As a new user, did you enable his account? My usual advice is to use SWAT for this. :) Tim Gessner wrote: > I am trying to support our network while the 'IT' guy is on vacation. I > have set up samba before, but it has been a few years so I'm very rusty. > The problem is a logon failure for a new user. The smb.conf file has > > > > workgroup = DELTA > > server string = File Server > > security = DOMAIN > > obey pam restrictions = Yes > > password server = delta.deltacompsys.com > > passdb backend = tdbsam > > passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u > > passwd chat = *Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n > *Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* . > > > > I am not familiar with tdbsam. Can anyone point me to some > documentation or give me the 5 second overview? Where do I go to debug > this problem? > > > > The logon works fine for Windows, just fails with samba. This is > running on a debian distro. Thanx! > > -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
