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Newer page: version 10 Last edited on Thursday, August 25, 2005 1:31:09 pm by CraigBox Revert
Older page: version 9 Last edited on Thursday, August 25, 2005 1:27:48 pm by CraigBox Revert
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 !!Another password has expired problem 
 I have a Samba 3.0.1 PDC setup, authenticating with tdbsam. When I exported to XML, erased the database, and imported from the database, suddenly all my passwords had expired, with a kick date at the beginning of Unix time - somewhere in 1970. I had to recreate all of the accounts. So beware of using the XML format as a backup of your password database until this bug is corrected. 
  
 !!Check the user account status 
-Using the command <tt>pdbedit username -c "~[X ]</tt>. This tells Samba that the password of username should not expire
+Use the command <tt>pdbedit username -c "~[X ]" </tt> to set password expiry off for the user
  
 !! smbclient -L host says 'protocol negotiation failed' 
 Check that the host you are trying to connect to has its loopback interface (lo) correctly configured and up