Re: samba

["Timothy C. Phan" <tphan@iqrinc.com>]

Hi Jenz,

  The owner of the /etc/samba/smbpasswd is root and the 
  permission is -rw-------.

  The /etc/hosts.allow has nothing in there except comment.

  Is the setup correct?  Thanks!


"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote:
> 
> "Timothy C. Phan" wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> >   I did a grep usera /etc/samba/smbpasswd and the usera
> >   is in this file.  However, this smbpasswd file has the
> >   0700 permission, is this the problem?
> 
> Probably not, it needs to have this permission. Who is the owner of the file.
> 
> >   The usera also try to change the samba password using
> >    smbpasswd and here is the error message:
> 
> >
> > ------------
> > read_socket_with_timeout: timeout read. read error = Connection reset by
> > peer.
> > machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the session setup. Error was : code 0.
> > Failed to change password for usera
> 
> This sounds like you've got a problem with /etc/hosts.allow. You're connecting to the
> service and then it's dropping you. Make sure that /etc/hosts.allow is set to allow you to
> connect to the netbios-ssn service.
> 
> --
> Jens B. Jorgensen
> jens.jorgensen@tallan.com