Emiliano Brunetti said: > 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; [snip] Here is the information I was looking for. It sounds like you are running in a Windows Domain. [snip] > The Windows server (well, so they call it anyway) is a very old NT4 > box. An NT4 domain to be precise. I haven't tried it with Samba 3 yet, but looking at the docs for "net" it looks like you might want to try: RAP PASSWORD USER OLDPASS NEWPASS Change password of USER from OLDPASS to NEWPASS. http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/net.8.html -- William Hooper
