[Samba] cant login with my samba password only with my linux password

Hartmut freemlist at googlemail.com
Wed Jan 5 15:33:11 MST 2011


On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Hartmut <freemlist at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a strange problem with my samba server. When I try to connect
> with my (Windows)client and samba ask for the password, it's only
> accepting my linux-user password, not my samba-user password (set with
> smbpasswd and as root with smbpasswd <user>).
>
> And now the strange about it. When i change my sambapassword with
> smbpasswd, and try to login from my client, then the samba-user password
> is accepted. But after a reboot of my samba server, the server accepts
> only the linux-user password. I have to (re)set the samba-user password
> again with smbpasswd and only after that, I can login with the
> samba-user password.
>
> Is there something wrong with my smb.conf (see below)? Or what else
> could be the problem?
>
>
> -------------
> smb.conf:
> [global]
> #       debuglevel = 1
>       workgroup = Gruppe
>       server string = Datastring
>       wins support = no
>       dns proxy = no
>
>       interfaces = 192.168.1.0/24 127.0.0.1/8
>       bind interfaces only = yes
>
>       log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
>       max log size = 1000
>       syslog = 0
>       security = user
>       encrypt passwords = true
>       passdb backend = tdbsam
>       obey pam restrictions = yes
>       unix password sync = no
>       pam password change = no
>       map to guest = bad user
>       domain logons = no
>       load printers = no
>       domain master = no
>       usershare allow guests = no
>
>       vfs objects = recycle
>       recycle: repository = .trash.bin
>       recycle: keeptree = Yes
>       recycle:versions = Yes
>
> [lager]
>       comment = Lager
>       path = /media/lager_hdd
>       public = no
>       valid users = user1
>       read only = no
>       browseable = no
> -------------
>
> Greetings
> Hartmut
>

Now it's solved. I had to remove the libpam-smbpass package. Thanks to
Tom from the Ubuntu list ;)


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