Re: samba won't authenticate

[David Botsch <dwb7 ccmr cornell edu>]

SInce I'm not doing this, I can't really troubleshoot, but a couple of things:

1. are you up to date w. the FL released updates for RH9?
2. did upgrading the samba rpm replace your samba pam or other samba config
files?

On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 05:20:11PM -0500, Steve Strong wrote:
> This is really hot.
> 
> I'm a CS teacher in a high school. We use dual-boot linux/win2k in the
> lab I support. The students using window suddenly can't change their
> samba password. Here's a dialog from the command line:
> 
> [aford stretch aford]$ smbpasswd
> Old SMB password:
> New SMB password:
> Retype new SMB password:
> machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the session setup. Error was :
> NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE.
> Failed to change password for aford
> [aford stretch aford]$
> 
> the same dialog occurs at the server, on a client in the lab (and the
> same subnet as the server) or from a remote location using puTTy.
> 
> logged in as root locally or remotely, i can successfully use smbpasswd
> to change the passwords.
> 
> The server is running RH 9.0 without the benefit of updates since RH 9.0
> went EOL. The clients are running win2k with all current updates.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> and thanks in advance!
> steve
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> Washington High School
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> Cedar Rapids, IA   52403
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