[Samba] Users with changed passwords can't log on remotely (but can locally)

Ed Holden eholden at mclean.harvard.edu
Tue Jan 18 20:00:40 GMT 2005


Yeah, I've checked that.  I have none of those settings enabled.  I did 
a diff between this smb.conf and the one on the old server, and they are 
identical.

-Ed

:: Ed Holden
:: Administrator, Research Information Systems
:: McLean Hospital
:: Tel: (617) 855-2822
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Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Ed Holden wrote:
> 
>> Yes.  I have a share called "NRL Folders"  I can't browse it or any 
>> other shares.  On the local machine I can; that is, on the server I 
>> can use the smbclient to connect to 127.0.0.1 and list shares that 
>> way.  But not from another machine.
>>
>> It's not a network thing, because it is user-specific.  Any user who 
>> has been added, or who has had his or her password changed, since the 
>> migration to the new machine cannot log on from other computers (but 
>> can connect with smbclient on 127.0.0.1).  So I assumed it was a 
>> problem related to secrets.tdb, since the names of the machines have 
>> changed and I know this sort of thing is in the secrets.tdb file.
> 
> 
> So we can assume this has nothing to do with machine passwords, as it's 
> not needed for browsing shares.
> 
> The only thing that comes to my mind is:
> 
> hosts allow =
> 
> hosts deny =
> 
> users allow =
> 
> etc.
> 
> 
> in smb.conf - but I'm sure you already checked that?
> 
> 
> Tomek


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