[Samba] Windows 2000 password change with smbpasswd - login problem

[finjon at helawann.de]

On 11 Dec 2003 at 8:04, Andrew Gaffney wrote:

> David Wilson wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Any ideas on this one ? Hopefully not being too pesky ? :)
> > 
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> > How are you ?
> > 
> > My setup is as follows:
> > Samba-3.0.0 PDC on a Slackware-9.0 box, with mixed N.T. and Windows 2000
> > clients.
> > 
> > Everything has been running perfectly for months however now, it seems
> > I've picked up a bit of a weird problem when changing a users password
> > via smbpasswd. This problem only appears to affect users who log onto
> > the Samba domain using a Windows 2000 PC.
> > i.e If I change a password for an N.T. 4.0 user the user merely has to
> > log out of N.T. and log back on with his new password, everything works
> > perfectly.
> > If I change a password for a Windows 2000 user, the user logs off
> > Windows 2000, tries to login again, but receives and incorrect
> > username/password error.
> > 
> > Ever come across this before ?
> > Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> This is a longshot, but maybe the Win2K box is caching the old password and it sees that 
> the new one doesn't match before it even tries to authenticate against the PDC. Can you 
> restart the Win2K machine and have the new password work?
> 
> -- 
> Andrew Gaffney
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Well, just usr the ctrl/atl/del dialog to change your domain password. in this way 
windows notices that the password is changed. This works perfectly here!


Andre Klocke
Linux Developer
Cologne, Germany