[Samba] New users cannot log on, current users okay

[A.J.Dawson]

I did add users to the smbpasswd database (doing grep -i newuser
/usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd turned them up fine) and changed their
password, still no joy.

I did eventauuly get it all working by stopping the Samba server, removing
the secrets.tdb file, restarting Samba and then rejoining the domain
controlled computers to the domain.  Luckily I have only about a dozen
machines that are domain controlled, so it wasnt too much of a problem!

Regards
Andy



On Tue, 20 May 2003, Ow Mun Heng wrote:

> Hi Marian,
>
> 	Just curious, files in /var/cache/samba, what are they used for?
>
> 	I've re-install my Distro before and just copied all the files in
> /etc/samba and it worked.
>
> Hi Andy,
>
> Is the file /etc/samba/private/smbpasswd updated with the new users
> password? I'm a newbie at this but here are my 2 cents for whatever 2 cents
> are worth.
>
> 	1. Did you add the new users into the smbpasswd database?
> 	2. smbpasswd -a newuser (to add new users)
> 	3. smbpasswd newuser (to change the samba password of the new users)
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Mun Heng, Ow
> H/M Engineering
> Western Digital M'sia
> DID : 03-7870 5168
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marian Mlcoch, Ing [mailto:mm at tsmp.sk]
> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 7:35 PM
> To: A.J.Dawson; samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: [Samba] New users cannot log on, current users okay
>
>
> I mean that you not copy all neccessary files to your new samba conf before
> it start.
> You must stop server and owerwrite all conf files that is necessary to conf
> identical server ID
> resp. machine ID. (files on /etc/samba and /var/cache/samba) with old
> backup.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "A.J.Dawson" <A.J.Dawson at Bradford.ac.uk>
> To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 1:13 PM
> Subject: [Samba] New users cannot log on, current users okay
>
>
> > I am having a problem with the Samba server that I run.  Simply, new users
> > added to the system cannot log on to the PC's that are controlled from the
> > Samba server's domain.  Users that are already on the system and have been
> > working for some time seem to be unaffected.
> >
> > I suspect that the problem may well be related to the 'minor' problem we
> > experienced with the server the other day - the system disk crashed and
> > burned, so we had to rebuild the system from scratch.
> >
> > I had however got copies of all of the password and shadow files,
> > secrets.tdb etc which were all duly copied back into place on the new
> > server.
> >
> > The server is up and running fine (i.e. file and print sharing is working
> > 100% for those who already had a username/password on the system), however
> > users that have been added since the rebuild cannot log onto domain
> > controlled PC's at all, receiving the message 'The system could not log
> > you on...'
> >
> > Do I need to recreate the secrets.tdb file and then rejoin all of the PC's
> > to the domain?  Or is there something else that I have missed that is
> > causing this problem?  This is unfortunately rather urgent, so if anyone
> > does have a solution to the problem, could you please let me know asap?
> >
> > Regards
> > Andy
> >
> > Dr. Andy Dawson
> > A.J.Dawson at Bradford.ac.uk
> > http://www.mossie.org
> > http://www.museum-explorer.org.uk
> >
> >  Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by
> stupidity.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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Dr. Andy Dawson
A.J.Dawson at Bradford.ac.uk
http://www.mossie.org
http://www.museum-explorer.org.uk

 Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.