Pasword Changing Error

[Frank Knobloch]

I just test samba 2.0.3 on Solaris 2.6/Sparc no NIS+.

I just do an smbpasswd -a frank it woked, but
it is not possible to change the password except i'm root.

The only thing i get is:

[1999/03/30 11:37:38, 1] smbd/server.c:(614)
  smbd version 2.0.3 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell 1992-1998
[1999/03/30 11:37:38, 1] smbd/files.c:(219)
  file_init: Information only: requested 10000 open files, 1014 are available.
[1999/03/30 11:37:38, 1] smbd/password.c:(528)
  smb_password_check failed. Invalid password given for user 'nobody'
[1999/03/30 11:37:38, 1] smbd/password.c:(528)
  smb_password_check failed. Invalid password given for user 'nobody'

in the log file.

Why nobody????

Ok, it worked on the samba-machine! Is this not possible (via swat or command line).

The only thing we want is:

synchronizing smbpasswd with /etc/passwd and
having exactly on domain-wide passwd for SAMBA and "normal" NT-Workstations.
Is these possible without having an NT-Server based system?.

Another question about administration.

First we do not want to have NT as the primary system to change user-passwds. So
what we want is the following:

A user changes his password in netinfo (Something like nis) and we want to
synchronize these changes with samba/smbpasswd.
The reason is that we most of us did not work permanently under NT.

Any hints?