Problems with smbpasswd solved

Tomek Jarosinski tomek at is.fh-hamburg.de
Tue Jun 8 10:19:04 GMT 1999


> I have problems with smbpasswd.
> I created ./private/smbpasswd file.
> I can change the password as root with smbpasswd -U username.When i am
> trying to change smbpasswd as normal user i am getting this output:
> 
> bash-2.01$ smbpasswd
> Added interface ip=141.22.16.100 bcast=141.22.16.255 nmask=255.255.255.0
> Old SMB password:
> New SMB password:
> Retype new SMB password:
> machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : The
> specified password is invalid.
> Failed to change password for tomek
> bash-2.01$
> I was trying it when user has XXXXX... and NO PASSWORDXXXX...
> 
> What am i doing wrong ?
> Why the line with "Added interface ip=141.22.16.100 bcast=141.22.16.255
> nmask=255.255.255.0" appears ?
Few users adviced me to insert 127. in host allow line. Now it
works.Thanks to Juergen Bock, Petr Svacek and Roman Manz.
But why it is not in samba docs ?
-- 
Have a nice day !
Tomek Jarosinski


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