[nflug] samba woes

[eric]

webmin is using perl scripts to interact with linux users and samba
users, so it is safe to say that I am managing my user accounts from the
linux side, with the commands that you are speaking about.  I have never
tried to change the password from the windows side, and never stated this.


David J. Andruczyk wrote:

>You are still not saying HOW YOUR ARE CHANGING your password 
>saying "webmin" tells me nothing as I donno what that is doing.
>
>If you use "passwd" from an intereactive session, this won't  do
>anything for samba,  you'd ALSO need to change the password in
>samba via smbpasswd.  If you are changing the passwod from a
>windows client  the unix side will ONLY be changed if you have
>passwd sync and passwd chat PROPERLY setup.  read the smb.conf man
>page and read up on passwd chat, and enable debugging to see where
>it is failing...
>
>
>
>--- eric <eric at bootz.us> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>one samba server is the file server
>>the other two are just sharing folders for me and no one else, my
>>user
>>account is on all three seperatly, and since I was the first user
>>created for each my UID is 1000, I changed my UID on the file
>>server to
>>1500 just to see if that would make a difference, but it did
>>not...
>>again none of the servers depend on each other for anything and
>>they are
>>all in the same workgroup.
>>
>>it is mind boggling to me... I thought maybe pam or shadow
>>passwords was
>>doing something funny, but on both samba servers I cannot change
>>my
>>password without samba failing me a connection, I must use my old
>>password for samba. 
>>
>>I would understand that maybe linux to samba password sync would
>>not
>>work on one server, but  two makes me think that something else
>>is going
>>on ...something interfering with samba over the network... its
>>like when
>>your internet goes down and you try to visit a website and your
>>browser
>>says "not available" then the internet is back on and you try to
>>go to
>>the same website with the same error only you know the internet
>>is up
>>...and you simply have to refresh your browser ...sorry getting
>>loopy
>>
>>    
>>
>
>-- David J. Andruczyk
>
>
> 
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