samba account

davender84 · 08-17-2009, 07:53 AM

hi
i am having an ftp account on server
and i am not allowed to login in server as root
so can anybody please tell me how can i convert my ftp account to samba account

i have already login in server as a ftp user
and tried the following but it ends up with error

[d_davender@server1 ~]$ smbpasswd
Old SMB password:
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Could not connect to machine 127.0.0.1: NT_STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
Failed to change password for d_davender

can anybody pls help me

camorri · 08-17-2009, 08:08 AM

A samba account has to be created on the server by someone with admin ( root ) authority. That is assuming the server has a samba server. If you do not have the authority, ( user ID and password ) then you need to talk to the person that does.

smbpasswd is the command to change and create a user password, if the account exists. 127.0.0.1 is the loopback IP address, the default on most systems. If the server is secured, that address may be filtered by firewall rules to block attacks.