[Samba] root passwd not working anymore

[John H Terpstra]

On Sunday 24 April 2005 23:11, Adi Nugraha wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since nobody answered my previous post I'm hoping to get an answer for this
> one, I have a working samba PDC with LDAP backend, recently i tried to add
> a W2k Workstation to the domain using root account and it returned with a
> wrong password, but i am able to login using the same account to the
> server, I've tried changing the password to join the doain and it worked
> again, but I'd like to know what made the password unable to join machines
> to the domain anymore, here is the level 10 log from the machine that
> failed to join with the old password

Check the validity of the current 'root' account by executing:

	pdbedit -Lv root

Check if your password is expired.

If necessary, renew your password with:

	smbpasswd root

- John T.
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John H Terpstra
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