"You are not allowed to change the password on..."

[Matthew Sachs]

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On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Stephen Brandon - SysAdmin wrote:

> Hi,

<SNIP - can't change SMB passwords from NT>

> Reading back issues in this list, I can see that people have  
> reported that the NT user manager shows "password changing disabled"  
> for the affected users. But on my NT workstation, I cannot bring up  
> the records for remote (samba) users, so I can't check that  
> parameter. Any ideas on how to do this? Could this be the problem?

If you run smbpasswd as root, there's a switch you need to pass it to
allow a user to change their password.  So if the switch was -x (I don't
remember what it is offhand and I don't have the NTDOM stuff on this box)
then you would need to do smbpasswd -x username.

<SNIP>

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Matthew Sachs	matthewg at zevils.com	http://www.zevils.com/linux/
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