[Samba] smbpasswd -r connecting to old samba not working

[Jeremy Allison]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 05:39:01PM -0500, Wayne Schroeder wrote:
> I am trying to build 3.0.14a and use it's smbpasswd binary to change
> passwords on a remote debian woody samba install -- the samba install on
> the remote debian machine is listed as '2.2.3a-15'  I can use the
> previous smbpasswd binary from the same version on the client linux
> machine to smbpasswd -r and change user passwords, but the new version
> from 3.0.14a does not work against the 2.2.3a version.  I get an error
> message like:
> 
> [2005/06/14 16:45:17, 0] smbd/chgpasswd.c:check_oem_password(817)
>   check_oem_password: incorrect password length (-177685840).
> 
> I searched a bit and found that this has something to do with hash
> lengths, or so it seems.  I tried various configuration changes in the
> smb.conf that I was using to no avail -- I tried all the hash tuning and
> lanman auth options I could find.
> 
> A few data points:
> 
> The binary in question from 3.0.14a DOES change passwords against an
> exchange server just fine.

It's a error message bug I'm afraid. Jerry just fixed it in the SVN source.
If you bug him enough I'm sure he'll post a patch :-).

Jeremy.