[Samba] smbpasswd error

[Van Sickler, Jim]

Where is the user account that you're changing the
password for?
  If it's local, it looks like only root can change it.

from - man smbpasswd:

       username
              This  specifies  the  username  for all of the root
              only options to operate on. Only root  can  specify
              this  parameter  as  only  root  has the permission
                                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
              needed to modify attributes directly in  the  local
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
              smbpasswd file.
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

If it's on a remote machine, and it's a Win2k/XP system,
look into the RestrictAnonymous registry key setting,
and see if it's set to 2.  Set it to 1, and see if the
tconX errors go away.   Search on Microsoft's site
for Q246261  (How to Use the RestrictAnonymous Registry
Value in Windows 2000).

Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael.Dunham at micorp.com [mailto:Michael.Dunham at micorp.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 7:36 AM
> To: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: [Samba] smbpasswd error
> 
> 
> I have an AIX 4.3 machine with Samba 2.2.1a installed.  I can 
> use smbpasswd
> as root with no problem.
> 
> However, when I try smbpasswd as a non-root user I get this error:
> 
> machine hostname rejected the tconX on the IPC$ share. Error 
> was : ERRSRV -
> ERRbadpw (Bad password - name/password pair in a Tree Connect 
> or Session
> Setup are invalid.).
> Failed to change password for username
> 
> Can anyone help me with this?  Please reply directly to my 
> email address.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
>                            
>  Michael W. Dunham         
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