problem with passwords

[John Cartwright]

Hello All,

I am trying to get samba 1.9.18p10 running on a Solaris 2.6 box and am
having trouble with the passwords.  Everything works OK as long as I
have "NO PASSWORD" entered in the smbpasswd file and "null
password" in the smb.conf file.

However, if I create the smbpasswd file from the UNIX passwd file via
mksmbpasswd.sh, no success.  For instance:

"smbclient -L hostname" returns the following:

Session setup failed for username=JOHNCC workgroup=GIS
myname=PUMA destname=PUMA   ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad
password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect or Session Setup are
invalid.)


smbpasswd returns the following:

bin/smbpasswd: machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the session setup. Error
was : ERRSRV - ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a
Tree Connect or Session Setup are invalid.).

The smb.conf file is listed below, any suggestions would be much
appreciated!

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smb.conf:

[global]
security = user
encrypt passwords = yes
smb passwd file = /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd
null passwords = true
workgroup = GIS
netbios name = puma
interfaces = 165.127.8.50
allow hosts = 165.127.8., 127.
valid users = johncc


[homes]
guest ok = no
read only = no

[tmp]
comment = temporary files
path = /tmp
read only = yes

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Thanks!

--john
john.cartwright at state.co.us