[Samba] Users changing samba passwords directly from windowsclient

[Michael]

Hi Mark,

Thank you for your reply.
I supposed this would be the way to go with win98 clients.
But most of my users are using Windows NT4.0 SP6 and Windows 2000
Professional as clients.
With these clients, most of them enter as administrator account at their
workstation. The moment they attempt to connect to the shared Linux box, a
window will pop up and prompt for BOTH username and password. This username
and password does not necessarily correspond to the Windows username and
password, but is what was previously set up on the Linux box. In such
scenarios, how can we change the smb password?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Belfanti" <mark at belfanti.com>
To: "Michael" <michael at theasian.net>
Cc: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 2:27 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] Users changing samba passwords directly from
windowsclient


> you need to set the password chat option in the global section. This is
> what I use and it works well. Users just hit cntl-alt-del to change
> password or use the previously mentioned applet in win98
>
> passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
> passwd chat = *New*UNIX*password* %n\n *ReType*new*UNIX*password* %n\n
*passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully*
>
> Mark
>
> On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 15:36, Michael wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know how I can enable windows users to change their samba
> > passwords directly from their windows client?
> > ie. they do not need to know the existence of the Linux SAMBA File
> > Server.
> >
> > I am having a very simple smb configuration setup as below:
> > [global]
> > encrypt passwords = yes
> > netbios name = mainserv
> > workgroup = mygroup
> > wins support = yes
> > os level = 65
> > local master = yes
> > preferred master = yes
> > domain master = yes
> > oplocks = no
> >
> > [test]
> > path=/home/bob/test
> > read only = no
> > admin users=bob
> >
> > [homes]
> > browsable=no
> > read only=no
> >
> >
> >
> > Any comments is appreciated! Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> > regards,
> > Michael
> --
> Mark Belfanti <mark at belfanti.com>
>
>
>