Re: samba password changes after potato upgrade
Thanks for the information James, My first instalation was using plain text
passwords. The latest version didn't transfer that setting from my old config.
Craig, I found this out before I read your message, but you are completely correct. I
recreated the users and passwords and everything worked great!
Thanks again,
Doug
"Daniels, Craig" wrote:
> 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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> > > jim
> > >
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