[Samba] Unix password sync

[Ben Jensz]

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:

[user at mail 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?

TIA.


/ Ben