[Samba] smbpasswd stops working post-upgrade

[Rowland penny]

On 03/06/16 09:07, J Martin Rushton wrote:
> On 02/06/16 13:42, Rowland penny wrote:
>> On 01/06/16 14:29, J Martin Rushton wrote:
>>> Background
>>>
>>> I have a network of machines behind an air-gap, therefore upgrades are
>>> a tedious business normally performed four times per year. The systems
>>> run various versions of CentOS and I use the Samba that is distributed
>>> with CentOS.  Last weekend I updated the 5.7 machines with updates to
>>> 18 April 2016, not the current 5.8. Those of my users who run Windows
>>> boxes (Windows 7 Enterprise) map Samba shares on my machines to a
>>> drive letter on their PCs. In order to do this they need to keep their
>>> Samba passwords updated. Samba passwords are held in
>>> /etc/samba/passdb.tdb.
>>
>> Try upgrading your OS, 5.7 is very old, 5.11 is the current version and
>> this goes EOL in March next year and if you look here:
>> https://wiki.centos.org/Download
>>
>> You will find this:
>>
>> ** Please note Red Hat's policy on Production Phase 3 for EL5 in the
>> above support policy. Only those security updates deemed crucial are now
>> being released upstream for EL5 (so also for CentOS Linux 5) Please read
>> this Mailing List
>> <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-November/148008.html>
>> post for more details. The CentOS team recommends that you start moving
>> workloads from CentOS-5 to CentOS Linux 6 or CentOS Linux 7.
>>
>>
>> If you upgrade your OS, your problem may be fixed, but if it isn't, you
>> stand more chance of getting it fixed.
>>
>> Rowland
>>
>
> Thanks Rowland.  I'm afraid I made a mistake, the machines we have are 
> 7.2, 6.7, and 5.11; hence my thinking about the .7/.8 issue. It is the 
> 5.11 machines that are having the problem.  The plan is to migrate 
> Samba serving to the 6.x machines, but at the moment non-Samba 
> problems are making them unreliable.
>
> So - we have just updated 5.11, and the Samba distributed with that 
> has stopped working.  I am reluctant to import a non-CentOS/RHEL 
> version of Samba since it upsets the CentOS repository system.
>
> Apologies once again for confusing the issue.
>
> Martin
>

OK, go and have a look here: 
https://www.samba.org/samba/history/samba-4.2.10.html

I know it is for the 4.2.10 release, but red-hat backported it to 3.6, 
have a look, there are few new smb.conf options and a few changes.

Rowland