Hi Jenz, The owner of the /etc/samba/smbpasswd is root and the permission is -rw-------.
The /etc/hosts.allow has nothing in there except comment. Is the setup correct? Thanks! "Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > "Timothy C. Phan" wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I did a grep usera /etc/samba/smbpasswd and the usera > > is in this file. However, this smbpasswd file has the > > 0700 permission, is this the problem? > > Probably not, it needs to have this permission. Who is the owner of the file. > > > The usera also try to change the samba password using > > smbpasswd and here is the error message: > > > > > ------------ > > read_socket_with_timeout: timeout read. read error = Connection reset by > > peer. > > machine 127.0.0.1 rejected the session setup. Error was : code 0. > > Failed to change password for usera > > This sounds like you've got a problem with /etc/hosts.allow. You're > connecting to the > service and then it's dropping you. Make sure that /etc/hosts.allow is set to > allow you to > connect to the netbios-ssn service. > > -- > Jens B. Jorgensen > [EMAIL PROTECTED]