[Samba] Samba PDC and MMC - Problems changing password of services

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 01:53, JJunge at paritaet-th.de wrote:
> Hy,
> 
> im using Samba as PDC.
> When im logging into another W2K machine
> with MMC an try to change the password
> of a service, windows is bringing up the error:
> "A device attached to the system is not functioning."

This is the windows equiv of 'NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL' - about the most
useless message we can possibly give :-)

We will need to see what's being called, and you would be advised to try
again with Samba 3.0 alpha or Samba HEAD

> A strange thing is, that some people can change there password
> from the client by using ctrl+alt+del "change password" and some
> can't do. The error Message ist something like
> "The original password is wrong".

This is interesting - you should be able to get some idea from the debug
logs - particularly of the 3.0 version.  (At least I know what to look
for in them :-)

> I think it has something to do with rpc-call and there authentication,
> but i'm absolutly not sure.

Only the network and logfile traces will really tell you.

Andrew Bartlett

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