[nflug] samba woes

eric eric at bootz.us
Wed Mar 7 12:39:03 EST 2007


I'm using webmin, in webmin I can set samba users to be created
everytime I create a linux user.

Thanks for your help


David J. Andruczyk wrote:

> You didn't make it very clear which PW you changed (linux login PW or
> sambs PW,  but you may want to look into "password sync" and "passwd
> chat" parameters for smb.conf
>
> but samba password sync will reset the UNIX login PW when a user
> changes their samba PW,  however this doesn't work two ways., unless
> you use the pam module pam_smb,  or setup winbindd which will allow
> you to autheniticate your linux login-able accounts through samba, or
> an outside NT/window/samba pdc.
>
> google is your friend for these topics as there's numerous howto's but
> you need to investigate your environment  (is it one server? or part
> of an AD/NT domain.) to  determine an appropriate course of action.
>
>
>
> */eric <eric at bootz.us>/* wrote:
>
>     I know there is a samba expert out there who might be able to help me.
>
>     I have a strange problem, firstly I have Linux users sync-ing and
>     creating samba users, I have many users on a samba file server when I
>     change their passwords everything works great, However when I
>     change my
>     password it only changes for my linux user, it is as if either the
>     network has a cache of my old password and will now not let me into
>     samba shares or the samba password for only my user account will not
>     change ...I have even tried just changing my samba user password with
>     still no luck.
>
>     Any clues would really be nice, I think I have exhausted all of my
>     ideas.
>
>     Thanks,
>     Eric
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