Ewan Mac Mahon | 26 Aug 2004 19:51
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Re: [WBEL-users] Samba unix password sync

On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 04:31:22PM -0500, Ganeshram Iyer wrote:
> If I try to change the password through Ctrl+Alt+Del on one of my
> WinXP domain client machines I get a "You do not have permission to
> change your password" error. 

The error message from Windows is a known bug[1] - however, it's the
error message that's at fault - the user's password is in fact changed.
The solutions are:
- Uninstall the appropriate Windows hotfix
- Upgrade samba (to a version that doesn't exist in Whitebox)
- Tell your users to ignore the spurious message.

I went for the third option, but then all my users sit within talking
range so it was quite an easy job :-)

Ewan

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Gmane