On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 15:14, William Hooper wrote: > Emiliano Brunetti said: > [snip] > > > > Ok, i answered myself: the problem was due to password change on the > > windows system. > > > > And now i wonder: is there a way to manage also this issue with samba? > > Now i know, or rather i presume, that ERRSRV - 2242 is > > password change request from server. Is there a way to deal with it > > without rebooting the windows system to change password? > > Could you give more detail on how you fixed the problem? Did you go to > the Windows machine and change the password, or did you change your Samba > config? What version of Windows are you using? Sure. I had to do both things - here is exactly what i did: - tried to manually mount all the shares you could see in my original post, no luck; - booted into winXP (i didn't erase it for this is my job's machine, and i was only allowed to use linux - not to zap out boring stuff ;) ) and tried to log on local network; - got the usual windows message of expired password; - changed my password; - didn't even log on, i only changed password and rebooted the system into linux; - running kernel 2.44.22-1.2135.nptl (just to make sure it wasn't causing any problem), i changed my password in ~/.smbidg (i use this file for smb credentials); - manually mounted all my smb shares with no problem; - now everything works perfectly again and smb shares get correctly mounted at boot time via fstab; My initial guess of a possible kernel update problem was obviously wrong. Unfortunately, my windows password expired the very same day i updated kernel. ;) Still my second question is without an answer: any way to manage all this automatically by means of a linux box? Samba correctly reports a error code that presumably means 'expired password'. So, i suppose, it wouldn't be too difficult to handle such error code in order to fire up some sort of password changing software. However, i made a quick google search on this topic and found nothing. It seems there is no way to change a windows password from a linux box. If somebody knows how it can be done, please post. The Windows server (well, so they call it anyway) is a very old NT4 box. E.
