cant login with my samba password only with my linux password

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 5 20:26:55 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Hartmut <freemlist at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Hartmut <freemlist at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Hartmut <freemlist at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have a strange problem with my samba server. When I try to connect
>>>> with my (Windows)client and samba ask for the password, it's only
>>>> accepting my linux-user password, not my samba-user password (set with
>>>> smbpasswd).
>>>>
>>>> And now the strange about it. When i change my sambapassword with
>>>> smbpasswd, and try to login from my client, then the samba-user password
>>>> is accepted. But after a reboot of my samba server, the server accepts
>>>> only the linux-user password. I have to (re)set the samba-user password
>>>> again with smbpasswd and only after that, I can login with the
>>>> samba-user password.
>>
>> Did you see my last reply to your earlier thread?
>>
>> <begin>
>> Check whether you have libpam-smbpass. Its function's to synchronize
>> the samba password with the unix password when you log in to a box and
>> they are different.
>> </end>
>
> yes, but I forgot to answer :) The package libpam-smbpass is
> installed. But what i want is, that the passwords are _not_ the same.
> I like to have a linux-login password and other one for the
> samba-login...

So why don't you try to uninstall libpam-smbpass? I don't think that
any other package depends on it. It *may* be the source of your
problems...




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