smbpasswd command - updated

[wsteffen at bwn.net]

A couple of days ago I posted a problem I was having with the
smbapasswd command for users (not root).
Here is the original post:
 I have Samba installed on a HP-UX 11.00 system using NIS for
  UID/password resolution. The smbpasswd file hasbeen initilized
  and as root I can add a user's password and the user can
"attach"
  the "share". But when the user tries to do the same, it
produces
  the following error:
  machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the tconX on the IPC$ share. Error
was
   : code 0. Failed to change password for lucy.

  Did I forget to do somthing? Can anyone help?

  Thanks
  Warren Steffen
  wsteffen at bwn.net

I have since been experimenting with various options in the
smb.conf
file, including; interfaces, null passwords, "NO PASSWORD" in the
smbpasswd file, hosts allow, updated encrypted, force group, and
force user. In all cases a "temp" password was put in the
smbpasswd
file by the root user (except for the "NO PASSWORD" test).
The results were basiclly the same for every thing except
when I used the following in smb.conf:

        force group = users
        force user = lucy

Then it worked for that user and root still worked but no other
user.
Which is what I expected after looking at the log file enrties
(which
are included below). The log entries are from the
samba/log/log.system
log. Where "system" is the system where Samba runs and the
smbpasswd
command was executed.
Some additional information: Samba was built on this system using
GCC,
bison, flex, and binutils.

Does anyone out there have encrypted passwords working for Samba
2.0.6?
On HP-UX 11.00? With NIS (although the tests somewhat eliminate
this?)?

When there is "null passwords = true" in smb.conf log file shows:

[2000/01/21 08:13:19, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2000/01/21 08:13:19, 1] smbd/password.c:pass_check_smb(505)
  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
[2000/01/21 08:13:19, 0] lib/util_sec.c:assert_gid(70)
  Failed to set gid privileges to (-1,-2) now set to (0,0)
uid=(0,0)
[2000/01/21 08:13:19, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(2456)
  PANIC: failed to set gid

Log entry befor expermenting with "force group/user" config
parms:

[2000/01/21 09:25:36, 0] lib/util_sec.c:assert_gid(70)
  Failed to set gid privileges to (-1,-2) now set to (0,0)
uid=(0,0)
[2000/01/21 09:25:36, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(2456)
  PANIC: failed to set gid

Log entry after "force group = users" added to smb.conf file:

[2000/01/21 10:17:35, 0] lib/util_sec.c:assert_uid(54)
  Failed to set uid privileges to (-1,-2) now set to (0,0)
[2000/01/21 10:17:35, 0] lib/util.c:smb_panic(2456)
  PANIC: failed to set uid

NO LOG ENTRY FOR SUCCSESSFULL PASSWORD CHANGE!

P.S. I have tried the archives, but have not found the same
problem.
I have found simular problems and got some ideas. Most of the
entries
that looked promising could not be found by BRAINDRAIN (or
whatever it
is).