[Samba] incorrect password length (1305249416)

[Ralph Ballier]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Andrew Bartlett wrote:

> Ralph Ballier wrote:
> >
>
> > If I look in log.smbd, I found the following error messages:
> >
> > api_samr_set_userinfo: Unable to unmarshall SAMR_Q_SET_USERINFO
> > libsmb/smbencrypt.c: decode_pw_buffer(263)
> > decode_pw_buffer: incorrect password length (1305249416)
>
> My normal reation to this particular error is to check that 'encrypt
> passwords = yes'.

thanks for your answer. I have found the solution in mail archive:
it is necessary to use the account "root" for administrative. It's
not enough to insert an administrive user, perhaps "ballier" in
smb.conf.

Ralph

>
> Andrew Bartlett
>
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