Samba Rejecting User root !

[humbletech99]

I am having a lot of trouble trying to get one particular machine to allow for a root login to samba. I have set

security = share

and done

smbpasswd -a root

and put in a password. I have also put in

valid users = root
user = root

under a share definition.

However, when I try to log in as root with the password I put in to smbpasswd using smbclient I get the following

smbclient //hostname/sharename -U root%password
tree connect failed: NT_STATUS_WRONG_PASSWORD

and I also get the following error in my logs

Dec 25 20:07:35 hostname smbd[32023]: [2006/12/25 20:07:35, 0] passdb/pampass.c:smb_pam_passcheck(827)
Dec 25 20:07:35 hostname smbd[32023]:   smb_pam_passcheck: PAM: smb_pam_auth failed - Rejecting User root !
Dec 25 20:07:35 hostname PAM-warn[32023]: function=[pam_sm_authenticate] service=[samba] terminal=[samba] user=[root] ruser=[<unknown>] rhost=[mymachine.mydomain.com]

I have done the same configuration on several other servers and they work, I can't think why this doesn't work.

I have been googling all over the place but the answers I have found say that I need to put in an smbpasswd, but I have put in an smbpasswd!

Any Ideas?

[AlexK]

try setting the "smb passwd file" option in smb.conf to something like /var/lib/samba/private/smbpasswd

[humbletech99]

I figured it out. The problem was it was a very old installation of samba where the default was to not encrypt passwords and I have to explicitly tell it to encrypt them, whereas in the modern versions this is the default and I omit it.