[Samba] SOLVED:Password change from win client doesn't work

[Josef Schauer]

Thx for the info.

It really has to match the wright password chat for the system in use.
I tried passwd at the console and modified the password chat in smb.conf
to fit
in my system.

Josef

Gary Dale schrieb:
> office at office-sis.dyndns.org wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> If a domain user wants to change his domain password from the windows
>> client, the client pc gets inaccessible for long time. After this time a
>> popup appears with a message like this:
>>
>> Your password could not be changed. The DOMAIN is not available.
>>
>> In the samba logs I get this message:
>>
>>  hg-k2 (192.168.0.15) couldn't find service "USERNAME"
>>
>> According to the example smb.conf on samba.org I have this lines in my
>> smb.conf:
>>
>> passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
>> passwd chat = *New*Password* %n\n*Re-enter*new*password* %n\n
>> *Password*changed*
>>
>> Thx
>>
>> Josef
>>   
>
> Does the passwd chat match the password change dialogue on your server
> (* are any character(s))?  This is also case sensitive. If the
> dialogue doesn't match what is expected, you get the problem you
> described.
>