Passwords, Shadow Password and Samba Passwords
I am trying to set up Samba to share a printer on my network. I am using Potato 2.2r2. I can see the Linux computer from Win98 but cannot enter the required password. I notice from /var/log/samba that there is a problem with no /etc/samba/smbpasswd entry for user 'default'. There is no /etc/samba/smbpasswd and this was an option from sambaconfig. I have read that the problem may be that Samba is not complied for shadow passwords? I believe I chose these when originally installing potato. I do not know how to create /etc/samba/smbpasswd. The command smbpasswd reports an error on any password for any user. Even the user 'default' that I created. It does create an /etc/samba/smbpasswd but with just a header comment that does not show the requuired format. Any clues to where I am going wrong? Paul Clark
Re: Passwords, Shadow Password and Samba Passwords
A few month ago I had the same problem, and a lot of people here solved all my doubts... there are the abstract of the 'Samba Passwords Amazing History': Situation: 1. Samba allows the use of PAM (aka shadow passwords if you configure it) and authentification through smbpasswd. 2. Win98 by default, only allows encripted authentification 3. Encripted authentification only can be done under samba using smbpasswd, 'cos the encription mechanism is diferent between Windows and Un*xes, and samba uses the same mechanism as Windows in his smbpasswd file. Solution: 1. You can add users using the command smbpasswd, that creates the smbpasswd file, and then use the option 'encrypt passwords = yes' into the smb.conf file. 2. You can disable the encripted authentification from Win98 updating a parameter into Windows Registry (into Samba.org's ftp you can found a Win98_PlainPassword.reg file that does it), and then selecting the 'encrypt passwords = no' option. Before it the samba daemon will use the PAM system to authentificate users, as any other service. This option sends the passwords in plain text, but the mechanism from Windows isn't secure, 'cos you send a hashed password that is the same every time... Well, If you have any problem I can send you more detailed instructions off-the-list, and I can send you the registry file. Bye, and Good Luck! On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Paul Clark wrote: I am trying to set up Samba to share a printer on my network. I am using Potato 2.2r2. I can see the Linux computer from Win98 but cannot enter the required password. I notice from /var/log/samba that there is a problem with no /etc/samba/smbpasswd entry for user 'default'. There is no /etc/samba/smbpasswd and this was an option from sambaconfig. I have read that the problem may be that Samba is not complied for shadow passwords? I believe I chose these when originally installing potato. I do not know how to create /etc/samba/smbpasswd. The command smbpasswd reports an error on any password for any user. Even the user 'default' that I created. It does create an /etc/samba/smbpasswd but with just a header comment that does not show the requuired format. Any clues to where I am going wrong? Paul Clark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Josep Llauradó Selvas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Registered User #153481 KeyFP: D82F 525C DD22 02C9 6909 20D6 F622 F3E8 18CD C548 The only intuitive interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned. (in comp.os.linux.misc, on X interfaces.) _
RE: samba Passwords
I have always found SWAT (Samba Web Administration Tool) to be very handy when it comes to managing your smb.conf and smbpasswd. Give it a try Cheers. Patrick My apologies to the person who coined this but I LIKE IT... Where do you want to go today? Far, far away from Redmond. Dead fish go with the flow of the river. -Original Message- From: Jay Kelly [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, July 08, 2000 7:39 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: samba Passwords Hello Group, Well thanks to the list I got Samba working for the most part. It seems I didnt have the smb.conf configured right. I have a shared directory that I can access fine but when I try to access the /home/user directory I am promt for a password. I then enter the password but it fails. I looked in the smbpasswd file but its empty. So I tried smbpasswd neutec but after entering the pass I receive an error that it failed to add it. So my first question is how to add new users to Samba ? And I read somewhere that if I want to share a CD-Rom I will need to add something to the fstab file. What do I need to add there ? I cant find the man page on this. And for my last question, Does anyone know where I can get some info on setting up Samba as a Domain Controller? Thanks again guys for all your help. Its been great Jay -- It feels so good, It's a marginal risk, when I clear off windows with fdisk Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
samba Passwords
Hello Group, Well thanks to the list I got Samba working for the most part. It seems I didnt have the smb.conf configured right. I have a shared directory that I can access fine but when I try to access the /home/user directory I am promt for a password. I then enter the password but it fails. I looked in the smbpasswd file but its empty. So I tried smbpasswd neutec but after entering the pass I receive an error that it failed to add it. So my first question is how to add new users to Samba ? And I read somewhere that if I want to share a CD-Rom I will need to add something to the fstab file. What do I need to add there ? I cant find the man page on this. And for my last question, Does anyone know where I can get some info on setting up Samba as a Domain Controller? Thanks again guys for all your help. Its been great Jay -- It feels so good, It's a marginal risk, when I clear off windows with fdisk Powered by Debian GNU/Linux. http://www.debian.org
Re: samba Passwords
1) As root, runsmbpasswd -a newusername That will add newusername to the smbpasswd file and set the password for you. 2) CDROMs Make sure your /etc/fstab contains a line like this /dev/hdd /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 then make sure theres a section like this in /etc/samba/smb.conf ; A sample share for sharing your CD-ROM with others. [cdrom] comment = Samba server's CD-ROM writable = no locking = no path = /cdrom public = yes ; The next two parameters show how to auto-mount a CD-ROM when the ; cdrom share is accesed. For this to work /etc/fstab must contain ; an entry like this: ; /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0 ; /dev/hdd/cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0 ; The CD-ROM gets unmounted automatically after the connection to the ; If you don't want to use auto-mounting/unmounting make sure the CD ; is mounted on /cdrom preexec = /bin/mount /cdrom postexec = /bin/umount /cdrom That will automatically mount the cd if a client machine requests it. 3) Samba as a domain controller. Firstly samba CANNOT act as a PDC for a NT network, neither can it partake in elections as a BDC to an existing NT server. What samba can do is use an existing NT server to authenticate usernames and passwords from, or it can act as a domain controller for win9x clients (that means not NT or 2000 (not sure about ME)) My suggestion is to look at either buying Using Samba by O'Reilly or look at the samba website www.samba.org At 04:39 PM 7/7/00 -0700, you wrote: ...I have a shared directory that I can access fine but when I try to access the /home/user directory I am promted for a password. I then enter the password but it fails. I looked in the smbpasswd file but its empty. So I tried smbpasswd neutec but after entering the pass I receive an error that it failed to add it. So my first question is how to add new users to Samba ? And I read somewhere that if I want to share a CD-Rom I will need to add something to the fstab file. What do I need to add there ? I cant find the man page on this. And for my last question, Does anyone know where I can get some info on setting up Samba as a Domain Controller? -- Criggie
Samba passwords
Quoting Lindsay Allen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I can't help with unloads because I can't get them loaded in the first place. New thread please. clientserver result w98 samba ok w98 nt4 ok smbmount w98 ok smbmount samba ok smbmount nt4 fail In other words, I can smbmount everything except an nt4 share. If I can do it from w98 it cannot be a password or encryption problem, can it? Any ideas please? This is vital as we plan on using Debian workstations in the classroom and users must be able to mount their home directories. Could it be FAQ 3.8? 3.8. I've applied NT 4.0 SP3, and now I can't access Samba shares, Why? As of SP3, Microsoft has decided that they will no longer default to passing clear text passwords over the network. To enable access to Samba shares from NT 4.0 SP3, you must do ONE of two things: 1. Set the Samba configuration option 'security = user' and implement all of the stuff detailed in ENCRYPTION.txt ftp://samba.anu.edu.au/pub/samba/docs/ENCRYPTION.txt. 2. Follow Microsoft's directions for setting your NT box to allow plain text passwords. see Knowledge Base Article Q166730 http://www.microsoft.com/kb/articles/q166/7/30.htm Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
samba passwords
hi I've had this problem for a while, hoping someone knows what is causing it. Users are unable to change their passwords for samba either through the SWAT interface or through smbpasswd at the command line. THe error is: - machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the session setup. Error was : ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.). Failed to change password for [user] however, root can change passwords either through SWAT or the shell. I'm using: samba 2.0.7-2 kernel 2.2.14 shadow passwords thanks!! Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math
Samba passwords - Session setup error
hi all I'm getting the following error when a normal user tries to change their password through SWAT, or through smbpasswd @ the command line: machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the session setup. Error was : ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.). The passwd for 'mcrobert' has NOT been changed The only explanation given in FAQs is that the interfaces list must include 127.0.0.1. However, this doesn't work - I've tried the following values for this setting (eth0 [server ip]/22 127.0.0.1). The odd thing is that root can use either SWAT or smbpasswd on command line to change a user's password. Perhaps the problem has something to do with the fact that the smbpasswd program can't read the existing user password from /etc/samba/smbpasswd (as the root user doesn't care about the old password). Any help would be greatly appreciated. Andrew - Andrew McRobert LLB B.Sc(Comp. Sci) IT Officer, School of Law MURDOCH UNIVERSITY Ph: 9360 6479 Fax: 9310 6671 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Samba: Passwords to print??
Hello, Can I let everyone in my office print to a Samba printer share, and not have them authentic as a user. I would rather allow every IP in my Domain/Subnet to print without asking for passwords. And then I can deny the rest of the world. Again, I only want to do this for printers, not all shares. Is it possible? --Jay
Samba passwords
Does anyone know how to set a Samba user password to NONE, if a password already exists? I've tried smbpasswd [user] and hit return twice, only to find that Samba password not changed. I've also tried modifying the /etc/samba/debian_config file to password set = no, and it still requires my previous password. Anything else I can do to eliminate the Samba password? Thanks, Brian Morgan -- Brian Morgan[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Service Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greenville College http://www.gvc.net/~jedi El Nino shot JFK
Re: Samba passwords
RTFM... /usr/doc/samba/ENCRYPTION.txt.gz - Kyle On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Brian Morgan wrote: Does anyone know how to set a Samba user password to NONE, if a password already exists? I've tried smbpasswd [user] and hit return twice, only to find that Samba password not changed. I've also tried modifying the /etc/samba/debian_config file to password set = no, and it still requires my previous password. Anything else I can do to eliminate the Samba password? Thanks, Brian Morgan -- Brian Morgan[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Service Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greenville College http://www.gvc.net/~jedi El Nino shot JFK -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null Kyle Amon email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Systems Administratorphone: (203) 486-3290 Security Specialist pager: 1-800-759- PIN 1616512 IBM Global Services or [EMAIL PROTECTED] email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] url: http://www.gnutec.com/kyle KeyID 1024/26DD13D9 Fingerprint = 7D 86 D1 AE 4B E9 91 6A 4B BC B5 B4 12 F0 D3 1A GNU does not eliminate all the world's problems, only some of them. - Richard Stallman The GNU Manifesto, 1985
Re: Samba passwords
Hi,
Brian Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know how to set a Samba user password to NONE, if a password
already exists? I've tried smbpasswd [user] and hit return twice, only
to find that Samba password not changed.
Well, firstly, are you using password encryption? If you are, then
passwords are stored in /etc/smbpasswd and you need to fill that file
with valid account names and passwords (hint: use smbpasswd -a
username).
If not, then the security depends on the setting of the security =
parameter in /etc/smb.conf.
Recommended readings are: /usr/doc/samba/{ENCRYPTION.txt,security_level.txt}
Finally, Samba by default does not allow acces to accounts that have
null passwords. To change this add this to the [global] section of
/etc/smb.conf:
null passwords = yes
See man smb.conf for more info.
Regards,
peloy.-
Samba, Passwords PAM -- Help (hamm)
Need help. I set up Samba to let me network a Windoz 3.11 box (yuck) with my main debian Linux machine: Pentium 48MB Kernel version 2.0.30 smbd Version 1.9.16p11 Passwords do not seem to work. If I set /etc/samb.conf so that the various services are 'public' then those services are available and work from either smbclient or the Windoz box. Anything set up to require a password though failes--both ways. Attempting to use smbclient to login to the windoz box also fails. One error message that does baffle me a bit is that I get something like: Server gave us a UID of 100. We gave 1000 with the second UID matching the particular Linux login name. This is probably just a real good example of 'ignorance at work' but I also note that adding a -U login name does not alter the UIDs printed out. Also, the UID '100' makes no sense to me at all. The machine has shadow passwords and PAM installed. PPP seems to work OK with the PAM as does NFS. The notes for Samba (in /usr/doc) mention that this particular Samba IS compiled for PAM support but I can't find anything on how to set it up (plus I am still suspicious about the UID '100' thing). -- best, -bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] from a 1996 Micro$loth ad campaign: The less you know about computers the more you want Micro$oft! See! They do get some things right! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
