Password change from Win95 clients

[cbrink]

>
> > Hello!
> > I'm using samba-2.0.5a on RedHat-6.0 in school network.
> There are so many
> > curious kids :) The network is dedicated for teachers only but for
> > security reasons they'd like to change their passwords time to
time.
> > But all of them didn't ever seen other OS than Win95 :((
> > So my question
> > Is it possible to change Samba password from Win95(Win98) client?
> > Thenk you!
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Konstantin Klubnichkin
> >
> >
> They can change the password over SWAT, there's a page
> PASSWORD. But the
> connection isn't encrypted.

The solution I always liked was to have smbpasswd as the shell for all
the users.

auser:999:999:A User:/home/auser/:/usr/local/bin/smbpasswd

Then if you set up a shortcut on their desktop to "Telnet
samba_server_ip" they will be prompted for their samba password
change.

Christian Brink
cbrink at allsportssupply.com