Re: [Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-30 Thread Craig White
I'm keeping this on list. On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 08:52 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Craig White wrote: if I was going to guess...I think your problems are... http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-ByExample/small.html#id2525330 see items #3 through #7 you don't have a passwd chat

Re: [Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-30 Thread Gary Dale
Craig White wrote: I'm keeping this on list. On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 08:52 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Craig White wrote: if I was going to guess...I think your problems are... http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-ByExample/small.html#id2525330 see items #3 through #7 you

Re: [Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-30 Thread Pitti, Raul
Gary Dale wrote: Craig White wrote: I'm keeping this on list. On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 08:52 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Craig White wrote: if I was going to guess...I think your problems are... http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-ByExample/small.html#id2525330 see items #3

Re: [Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-30 Thread Gary Dale
simo wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 23:33 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: --- OK, the logs aren't quite silent. Here's one when I tried to change my password from a workstation (the log fragment is from samba/log.netbiosname - log.nmbd and log.smbd are silent for

Re: [Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-30 Thread Ben Walton
A note on the password sync issue. Someone more knowledgeable correct me if I'm wrong. When using the password syncing feature, the password must be changed using the smbpasswd program on the pdc. The reason being that using the dialog from a windows client sends the updated password to the pdc

Re: [Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-30 Thread Eric J. Feldhusen
On a RHEL4, with Samba 3.0.10, I have the following password options below. I just tested and with a WinXP Pro client, I did the ctrl-alt-delete and changed my password. Once I did that, I ssh'ed into the box and it used my new password. [global] encrypt passwords = yes null passwords =

Re: [Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-30 Thread simo
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 14:31 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: re. 2) my current problem: your suggestion #2 worked. When unix passwd synch is commented out, I was able to change my Samba password. When it was set to Yes, the password synch took forever, then failed silently. It looks like there is an

Re: [Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-30 Thread simo
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 14:45 -0500, Ben Walton wrote: A note on the password sync issue. Someone more knowledgeable correct me if I'm wrong. You are wrong, see Eric's answer. Simo. -- Simo Sorce Samba Team GPL Compliance Officer email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://samba.org -- To unsubscribe

Re: [Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-30 Thread Ben Walton
Yes, I just verified this on my setup. I've never had luck in the past, but I must have had a non-working password chat at those times (quite some time ago now). Apologies for misleading anyone. I have a 'unique' setup for my user accounts, so my little script will still be useful for certain

Re: [Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-30 Thread Gary Dale
simo wrote: On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 14:31 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: re. 2) my current problem: your suggestion #2 worked. When unix passwd synch is commented out, I was able to change my Samba password. When it was set to Yes, the password synch took forever, then failed silently. It looks

Re: [Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-30 Thread Gary Dale
I'm wondering about the pros and cons of simplifying the default chat - maybe something like: *password* %n\n *password* %n\n *success* This should work on my system as well. I'm not sure about the system from the Example 3.4. 130 User Network with tdbsam [globals] Section, since the final

[Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-29 Thread Gary Dale
Back to square 1! I stripped out my unsuccessful attempts to get Samba working with LDAP on my Debian Sarge server and am back with a tdbsam backend. I actually tried to purge as much of the old Samba LDAP as I could then reinstalled fresh. This included removing the Windows groups and users

Re: [Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-29 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 17:36 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Back to square 1! I stripped out my unsuccessful attempts to get Samba working with LDAP on my Debian Sarge server and am back with a tdbsam backend. I actually tried to purge as much of the old Samba LDAP as I could then reinstalled

Re: [Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-29 Thread Gary Dale
Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 17:36 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Back to square 1! I stripped out my unsuccessful attempts to get Samba working with LDAP on my Debian Sarge server and am back with a tdbsam backend. I actually tried to purge as much of the old Samba LDAP as I could

Re: [Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-29 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 21:49 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 17:36 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Back to square 1! I stripped out my unsuccessful attempts to get Samba working with LDAP on my Debian Sarge server and am back with a tdbsam backend. I

Re: [Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-29 Thread Gary Dale
Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 21:49 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 17:36 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Back to square 1! I stripped out my unsuccessful attempts to get Samba working with LDAP on my Debian Sarge server and am back with

Re: [Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-29 Thread Gary Dale
Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 21:49 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 17:36 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Back to square 1! I stripped out my unsuccessful attempts to get Samba working with LDAP on my Debian Sarge server and am back with

Re: [Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-29 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 23:33 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 21:49 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 17:36 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Back to square 1! I stripped out my unsuccessful attempts to get

Re: [Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-29 Thread simo
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 23:33 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: --- OK, the logs aren't quite silent. Here's one when I tried to change my password from a workstation (the log fragment is from samba/log.netbiosname - log.nmbd and log.smbd are silent for the period).

Re: [Samba] changing passwords from Windows XP Pro workstations

2006-03-29 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 23:12 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 21:49 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Craig White wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 17:36 -0500, Gary Dale wrote: Back to square 1! I stripped out my unsuccessful attempts to get