[Gllug] smbpasswd change

[Pete Ryland]

On Sun, Dec 21, 2003 at 06:28:00PM -0000, Henrik Morsing wrote:
> > On Friday 19 December 2003 18:08 pm, Henrik Morsing wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks for any hints
> >
> > HINT:
> >
> > Do not hijack threads if you want a good answer
> 
> Does anyone have a serious answer? I'm really stuck on this one.
> The logs doesn't show anything about this and Google isn't really helpful.
> 
> If I enable debug I get:
> 
> Old SMB password:
> New SMB password:
> Retype new SMB password:
> Connecting to 127.0.0.1 at port 445
> error connecting to 127.0.0.1:445 (Connection refused)
> Connecting to 127.0.0.1 at port 139
> machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the password change: Error was : RAP86: The
> specified
>  password is invalid.
> Failed to change password for hhmors
> madbt201 $

I would say that, as it says, the specified password is invalid!  But I
think you're assuming it's talking about the NEW password, whereas I would
read that as referring to the OLD password which you must of course know in
order to change it.

Pete
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