On 11-Feb-07, at 2:26 PM, Fabian Arrotin wrote: > On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 13:44 -0700, Neil Jolly wrote: >> I' just setting up a samba server using centos and get you don't have >> permission to change you password on the windows xp client. Just >> wondered what others are using for the passwd chat line in smb.conf. >> >> Mine is: >> *New*password* %nn *Retype*new*password* %nn >> *passwd:*all*authentication*tokens*updated*successfully* Just got this working. I had to change the %nn to %n\n to get things working. > > This password chat is only used if you have enabled "unix password > sync" Yes it's enabled. > so nothing related to the smbpasswd itself. > Have you at least enabled encrypted passwords (encrypt passwords = > yes) Yes. > And which passwd backend are you using ? file, ldap ? file. > > > -- > Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thanks, Neil Jolly