Samba

[jbk at mail2.gis.net (jbk)]

I have been useing encryted passwords for six months now, previously I used
unencrypted.
I believe my problem lies in a corrupted password database. The reason is that a
week ago I moved the home directories from one partition to another. I got some
help from a bluorg post to accomplish this. The password database for smbpasswd
must record the partition that the home directories originate. NT must be
recognized as a more secure installation than 98 given that I was having no
problems logging on to the samba server from that box. My login problems are
with the 98 box and in useing the smbclient utility on the linux box. I believe
that 98 is considered a less trusted client. I also believe that anyone logging
into a samba share from the linux box is also given a higher authentication
screening. I have explored the pam documentation and see that there is a
database created independent from /etc/passwd. I have moved the ../smbpasswd
file and recreated it via the mksmbpasswd utility. When I call it as 'user' it
still asks for the old password prior to asking for the new which leads me to
the conclusion that there is a different database, one associated with pam or
with shadow.
Well I may be treading on unexplored territoy since this problem seems to arise
from my previous moves and the most expedient course of action would be to
uninstall samba and reinstall. If that doesn't work I can go back to '0', I'm
getting good at that.

jbk

>Drew Taylor wrote:

> At 10:20 PM 1/23/2002 -0500, you wrote:
> >Is there a different means that users on the NT
> >box are authenticated when they access their
> >shares on the server, from the means of
> >authentication that the smbclient utitility uses
> >on the server?
>
> Yes, NT & I believe 98 uses encrypted passwords. Do you have that option
> set in smb.conf? Also, you'll probably need to use smbpasswd to create a
> samba password. This is separate from the unix passwd file. Hope this helps.
>
> Drew Taylor                     JA[P|m_p|SQL]H
> http://www.drewtaylor.com/      Just Another Perl|mod_perl|SQL Hacker
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