On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Ben Jensz wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry if this has been answered before, but I've searched Google and the > archives and it hasn't revealed an answer to my problem. > > Basically I'm trying to get unix password sync to work so that users can > change both their logon and other services (POP3 etc) passwords from > within Windows. but the problem is that if I enable unix password sync, > it fails with the error of: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] user]$ smbpasswd > Old SMB password: > New SMB password: > Retype new SMB password: > machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : RAP86: The > specified password is invalid. > Failed to change password for user > > So basically because it won't even work via smbpasswd from the machine > as the unprivileged user, then changing from Windows won't (and doesn't) > work either. But of course, if I turn off unix password sync, password > changes by the users on the command line with smbpasswd work fine and > they do from Windows as well. > > I have tried a variety of versions of Samba from earlier 2.2.x series, > to the latest 2.2.8a version and the latest 3.0.x versions as well. So > it doesn't appear to be a bug in any specific version of Samba causing > the problem. I'm running Samba on a Fedora Core 1 machine, but I've > also tested unix password sync on another machine with Red Hat 7.3 on it > and it fails on that one also if unix password sync is on. > > What else needs to be done to get this to work properly?
What is in your smb.conf file for: interfaces = ?? Do you have: bind interfaces only = Yes ?? What entries to you have for: hosts allow = hosts deny = ?? Do you have a firewall on this machine? - John T. -- John H Terpstra Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba