[Samba] root passwd not working anymore

Adi Nugraha adi at westindo.co.id
Mon Apr 25 06:37:27 GMT 2005


I used the idelax smbldap-passwd script to update the password is that ok ??
because that did't work, because the original password still didn't work,



----- Original Message -----
From: "John H Terpstra" <jht at Samba.Org>
To: <samba at lists.samba.org>
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Samba] root passwd not working anymore


> On Sunday 24 April 2005 23:11, Adi Nugraha wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > since nobody answered my previous post I'm hoping to get an answer for
this
> > one, I have a working samba PDC with LDAP backend, recently i tried to
add
> > a W2k Workstation to the domain using root account and it returned with
a
> > wrong password, but i am able to login using the same account to the
> > server, I've tried changing the password to join the doain and it worked
> > again, but I'd like to know what made the password unable to join
machines
> > to the domain anymore, here is the level 10 log from the machine that
> > failed to join with the old password
>
> Check the validity of the current 'root' account by executing:
>
> pdbedit -Lv root
>
> Check if your password is expired.
>
> If necessary, renew your password with:
>
> smbpasswd root
>
> - John T.
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