[Samba] Unable to open passdb???

[John H Terpstra]

On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, smw wrote:

> Hello John,
>
> My apologies, I should have mentioned that this is on a RedHat 7.3 platform,
> however I downloaded the RPMs from the Samba site and installed it that way.
> I will give that a shot as well, and see what I can come up with.

In that case, you need to add your root account to smbpasswd. The way to
do this is from a root login shell:
	smbpasswd -a root

Let me know how you go.

- John T.

>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John H Terpstra" <jht at samba.org>
> To: "smw" <kc8lir at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Noel Kelly" <nkelly at citrusnetworks.net>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 8:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Samba] Unable to open passdb???
>
>
> > On Sat, 2 Nov 2002, smw wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Noel,
> > >
> > > Thanks for the tip, but I've run into an issue now with that..  The
> > > directory /usr/local/samba/private doesn't exist.  Do I need to create
> that
> > > directory then as well?
> >
> > That would help. What platform is this on? Did you build the binaries
> > yourself? If you did then the likely location for the smbpasswd file is as
> > Scott suggested. If you are on a Linux system and you are using an RPM
> > package then the likely place is /etc/samba/smbpasswd.
> >
> > - John T.
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks for the assistance!
> > >
> > > Scott
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Noel Kelly" <nkelly at citrusnetworks.net>
> > > To: "'smw'" <kc8lir at yahoo.com>; <samba at lists.samba.org>
> > > Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 5:03 PM
> > > Subject: RE: [Samba] Unable to open passdb???
> > >
> > >
> > > > Scott,
> > > >
> > > > You hopefully just need to manually create the smbpasswd file in
> > > > /usr/local/samba/private/.
> > > >
> > > > Just do a 'touch /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd' and retry.
> > > >
> > > > Noel
> > > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: smw [mailto:kc8lir at yahoo.com]
> > > > Sent: 02 November 2002 17:13
> > > > To: samba at lists.samba.org
> > > > Subject: [Samba] Unable to open passdb???
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > Getting this error:
> > > >
> > > > [2002/11/02 12:55:16, 0] passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwnam(1367)
> > > >   unable to open passdb database.
> > > > [2002/11/02 12:55:16, 0] smbd/chgpasswd.c:check_oem_password(761)
> > > >   check_oem_password: getsmbpwnam returned NULL
> > > > [2002/11/02 12:55:16, 0] passdb/passdb.c:pdb_free_sam(210)
> > > >   pdb_free_sam: SAM_ACCOUNT was NULL[2002/11/02 12:55:16, 0]
> > > > passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwnam(1367)
> > > >   unable to open passdb database.
> > > > [2002/11/02 12:55:16, 0] smbd/chgpasswd.c:check_oem_password(761)
> > > >   check_oem_password: getsmbpwnam returned NULL
> > > > [2002/11/02 12:55:16, 0] passdb/passdb.c:pdb_free_sam(210)
> > > >   pdb_free_sam: SAM_ACCOUNT was NULL
> > > >
> > > > Now, I've tried changing passwords via smbpasswd for a couple of
> different
> > > > accounts, and for whatever reason it can't change them.  I'm trying to
> set
> > > > up my Samba box as a PDC.  So far I haven't even been able to join the
> > > > domain.
> > > >
> > > > Here's my smb.conf file:
> > > >
> > > > [global]
> > > >
> > > >   netbios name = roswell
> > > >   workgroup = AREA51
> > > >
> > > >   os level = 64
> > > >   preferred master = yes
> > > >   domain master = yes
> > > >   local master = yes
> > > >
> > > >   security = user
> > > >
> > > >   encrypt passwords = yes
> > > >
> > > >   domain logons = yes
> > > >   domain admin group = root swrosch inferno
> > > >
> > > >   add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -d /dev/null -g 100 -s
> /bin/false -M
> > > > %u
> > > >
> > > >   allow hosts = 192.168.0. 127.
> > > >
> > > > # SHARE DEFINITIONS
> > > >
> > > > [netlogon]
> > > > path = /home/netlogon
> > > > read only = yes
> > > > guest ok = no
> > > > write list = root swrosch inferno
> > > >
> > > > I'm running Samba 2.2.6, and trying to join with my Win2k box.  But,
> every
> > > > time I try to change passwords or anything, I get unable to open
> passdb
> > > > errors.
> > > >
> > > > Any assistance would be much appreciated.  I've been trying to follow
> the
> > > > directions in the Samba howto
> > > > (http://us6.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html), and I'm
> > > > getting completely confused.
>

-- 
John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org