From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 22 20:47:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E92A37B71B for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:47:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f2N4lHk30844; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:47:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Forrest" , "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: Samba encrypted passwords and question to Ted Mittelstaedt... Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:47:17 -0800 Message-ID: <000301c0b354$563df660$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Forrest >>> >> >Thank you Ted, everything is working beautifully with Samba now. I found >that I had to run smbpasswd once for each user, after I had run the script >referenced above. > Yes, that's correct, all the script does is populate the smbpasswd password file from the system password with the usernames, it can't insert the crypted password becuase there's no way to go backwards from the UNIX crypted passwords. You probably want to rename 'passwd' to 'passwd.old' and make a softlink from 'smbpasswd' to 'passwd' so that you don't forget in the future. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message