Unix samba accounts sync issue

Question

I have installed samba-server, libpam-smbpass and smbclient on my ubuntu 10.04. And I have uncommented the following in my smb.conf file:

security = user
[homes]
   comment = Home Directories
   browseable = no
   read only = no

ANd I created a unix user account and logged in via shell to get the account activated. And I tried \\sambaserver\username, but I cannot login.

And I tried this in the shell: smbclient -L localhost -U username. And it shows this:

Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.7]

    Sharename       Type      Comment
    ---------       ----      -------
    print$          Disk      Printer Drivers
    IPC$            IPC       IPC Service (sambaserver server (Samba, Ubuntu))
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.4.7]

    Server               Comment
    ---------            -------
    SAMBASERVER          sambaserver server (Samba, Ubuntu)
    UNKNOWN              tomato

    Workgroup            Master
    ---------            -------
    WORKGROUP            UNKNOWN

The above doen'tt show the shared home directory.

EDIT: 1

I want samba accounts to be created automatically when I add unix accounts. For that I use libpam-smbpass package. I used to add hundreds of unix accounts in batch mode, and the above mentioned package also created samba accounts automatically on my old server. Now, on my new server, it isn't happening. The account I created soon after installing libpam-smbpass is working fine. But the accounts created after a reboot aren't. The command pdbedit -w -L doesn't list the recently added accounts. For testing, I installed libpam-smbpass on my desktop and created two dummy unix accounts, and pdbedit -w -L command showed that it also created samba accounts. But it doesn't work on my ubuntu 10.04 based new server.

It's running, restarted it many times. And the accounts I created a wile ago are working fine. Only have the issue with the recently created accounts. — nixnotwin, Apr 05 '11 at 13:21

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 05 '11 at 14:22

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Have you added the user to whatever SAM database that is configured in smb.conf?

smbpasswd -a username

You say accounts you created a while ago are working, does that mean account on this same computer that were created before samba was installed are working or that you've created a similar setup before and that installation worked?

answered Apr 05 '11 at 14:22

rthomson

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see my edit above. – nixnotwin Apr 05 '11 at 14:56
@nixnotwin, have you checked your PAM rules (usually in /etc/pam.d, not sure about Ubuntu) to see if libpam-smbpass is properly configured for the authentication service that you're using to perform the first "shell" login? For example, if you're doing the first login via SSH, make sure that libpam-smbpass is in /etc/pam.d/sshd (or via an "include" of another PAM configuration file where it is listed). Not sure what else it could be. – rthomson Apr 05 '11 at 15:53
I'm not using openssh-server(sshd), instead I use dropbear. Would that be the reason for the issue? – nixnotwin Apr 05 '11 at 17:32
Yes it is the issue with dropbear. It doesn't create a sshd file in `pam.d` directory. – nixnotwin Apr 06 '11 at 05:37

Unix samba accounts sync issue

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