[Samba] Unix password sync

[John H Terpstra]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Ben Jensz wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Sorry if this has been answered before, but I've searched Google and the
> archives and it hasn't revealed an answer to my problem.
>
> Basically I'm trying to get unix password sync to work so that users can
> change both their logon and other services (POP3 etc) passwords from
> within Windows.  but the problem is that if I enable unix password sync,
> it fails with the error of:
>
> [user at mail user]$ smbpasswd
> Old SMB password:
> New SMB password:
> Retype new SMB password:
> machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : RAP86: The
> specified password is invalid.
> Failed to change password for user
>
> So basically because it won't even work via smbpasswd from the machine
> as the unprivileged user, then changing from Windows won't (and doesn't)
> work either.  But of course, if I turn off unix password sync, password
> changes by the users on the command line with smbpasswd work fine and
> they do from Windows as well.
>
> I have tried a variety of versions of Samba from earlier 2.2.x series,
> to the latest 2.2.8a version and the latest 3.0.x versions as well.  So
> it doesn't appear to be a bug in any specific version of Samba causing
> the problem.  I'm running Samba on a Fedora Core 1 machine, but I've
> also tested unix password sync on another machine with Red Hat 7.3 on it
> and it fails on that one also if unix password sync is on.
>
> What else needs to be done to get this to work properly?

What is in your smb.conf file for:

	interfaces =
??

Do you have:

	bind interfaces only = Yes

??

What entries to you have for:

	hosts allow =
	hosts deny =

??

Do you have a firewall on this machine?

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