RE: samba password changes after potato upgrade
I had the same problem when I upgraded to potato with samba 2.04. There's
probably a better way to do this, but I fixed it using smbpasswd with the
username for each of my users and entered a default password. After that,
it seems to work fine.
Craig
> ----------
> From: Doug Thistlethwaite
> Sent: Monday, July 19, 1999 2:12 AM
> To: Lewis, James M.; debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Cc: Doug Work
> Subject: Re: samba password changes after potato upgrade
>
> Ok, I upgraded to 2.2.10 kernel but my Samba still does not recognise my
> passwords
> from my win 95 system.
>
> My old samba configuration used plain text passwords if my memory serves
> me right. I
> think there was a problem with encription of passwords when I first
> installed it. If
> this is the case, how do I go about setting up my system to accept
> passwords? Any
> help pointing me in the correct direction would be greatly appriciated!
>
> Doug
>
> "Lewis, James M." wrote:
>
> > > After upgrading my system to potato, my samba services no longer work.
> > > I get an error message saying that the password supplied is not valid.
> > > Everything worked fine under slink.
> > >
> > > If I remember correctly, part of the instructions on the old setup was
> > > to remove password encryption so windows 95 could connect (Its been so
> > > long, I'm not sure exactly what I did to set it up). The latest
> version
> > > of samba has encryption enabled for windows 95/98.
> > >
> > > Where should I look to modify my configuration files? Are there any
> > > docs on conversion issues from the version that was stable with slink?
> > >
> > If all you did was upgrade samba, then the problem might be
> > with the kernel version. I had a similar problem with 2.0.36
> > kernel. I upgraded to 2.2.10 and things worked right. The
> > problem was that samba could not become the connected user.
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Doug
> > >
> > >
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