Re : How To Change Password In Samba

[Vincent_5]

Hi,
Can anyone advice how can I change the password in Samba. And what if I want to sync the account password and Samba password, can it be done. Does anyone have any documentation that I can refer.

Regards

[R Madhavan]

Use smbpasswd command (/opt/samba/bin) to change the samba password. A good place for the documentation is www.samba.org.

[Vincent_5]

Hi,
Thanks for the advice, but what if I want to synconise the samba password with the local passsd account, can this be done. Please advice

[Rainer von Bongartz]

You should use winbind (part of the samba suite) to do this

look for more information in
http://de.samba.org/samba/ftp/appliance/winbind.pdf

[Vincent Stedema]

There are a few params that need to be set in smb.conf in order to keep the unix and samba passwd in sync:

- unix passwd sync
- passwd program
- passwd chat

It'll probably suffice to set "unix passwd sync" to "Yes" and set "passwd program" to the correct path.

HTH.

Regards,

Vincent

[Vincent_5]

Hi,
Thanks for all the advice. but can anyone advice how can I share NT folder through Unix using samba and where can the samba software be found, and how can I configure it .

Regards

[Rainer von Bongartz]

you will find samba source code along with documentation at www.samba.org

you might also look at HP's samba implementation
CIFS9000, which comes as a compiled an ready to run
version

http://www.software.hp.com/cgi-bin/swdepot_parser.cgi/cgi/displayProductInfo.pl?productNumber=B8725AA

[Vincent_5]

Hi,
Sorry, I did not give you the OS I'm using, is actually version 10.20 and I think The swdepot doesn't have a copy for 10.20. Please advice

[Vincent Stedema]

Hi,

You can find binary packages for 10.20/11.00 here: http://samba.nip.nl/samba/ftp/Binary_Packages/hp/

Vincent