Users Cannot Use smbpasswd to Change Samba Passwords

[Michal Jezierski]

Williston, Wade wrote:
> 
> Running Samba 2.0.3 on a Digital Unix 4.0D system.  All functions of the
> new Samba version appear to run properly (previously ran 1.9.15) with
> exception of users being able to change their own Samba password
> (root is only able to change password on behalf of users).
> 
> system> whoami
> mickey
> 
> system> ./smbpasswd
> Old SMB password:
> New SMB password:
> Retype new SMB password:
> machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the session setup. Error was : ERRSRV - ERRbadpw
> (Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are
> invalid.).  Failed to change password for mickey
> 

This means that smbpasswd is using loopback interface to connect to smbd
in order to create password hashes. Make sure you have included
127.0.0.1/255.0.0.0 in your interfaces parameter in smb.conf.

Hope this helps

Michal