Samba system config password not accepted ubuntu 13.04

[siamesekatz]

Hi all,

After a long hiatus of not using Ubuntu (working in a windows server world these days) I have just found a project that made me want to give the ol' ubuntu another go.
We have need of a media\file server and had an old 1u rack mount server lying around that would be perfect for the job. I downloaded and installed ubuntu server 13.04 and added the xubuntu desktop.
I installed samba system config since the rest of samba was already installed.

I logged in with my account (administrator) with admin rights but when I click on the samba system config tool it asked for a password, but none of my password were accepted. I then thought I needed to add the samba user and I did that with the same username and password, then I restated samba and tried again and I had the same issue. I made another user with admin rights and logged in with that account but still the same problem.
Last night I tried the same thing on a mint 14 box and it worked fine.

Can any one tell me what I'm doing wrong or how I can go about fixing this.

Thanks in advance

Justin

[matt_symes]

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[bab1]

Hi all,

After a long hiatus of not using Ubuntu (working in a windows server world these days) I have just found a project that made me want to give the ol' ubuntu another go.
We have need of a media\file server and had an old 1u rack mount server lying around that would be perfect for the job. I downloaded and installed ubuntu server 13.04 and added the xubuntu desktop.
I installed samba system config since the rest of samba was already installed.

Post the results of this

ps aux|grep mbd

I logged in with my account (administrator) with admin rights but when I click on the samba system config tool it asked for a password, but none of my password were accepted. I then thought I needed to add the samba user and I did that with the same username and password, then I restated samba and tried again and I had the same issue. I made another user with admin rights and logged in with that account but still the same problem.

Last night I tried the same thing on a mint 14 box and it worked fine.

Post the results of this from Ubuntu

sudo pdbedit -L

[siamesekatz]

Hi there,

Thanks for the help, I can see from the results where the problems are but how to fix?

anmmedia@ubuntu-media:~$ ps aux|grep mbd
root 589 0.0 0.2 23204 2148 ? Ss May08 0:03 smbd -F
root 734 0.0 0.0 23720 620 ? S May08 0:00 smbd -F
root 1000 0.0 0.0 13344 904 ? Ss May08 0:04 nmbd -D
anmmedia 13413 0.0 0.0 4428 812 pts/1 S+ 12:37 0:00 grep --color=auto mbd

anmmedia@ubuntu-media:~$ sudo pdbedit -L
[sudo] password for anmmedia:
anmmedia is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported

[siamesekatz]

Ok so I googled how to set the root password, so I can now open the samba config tool let see if I can do the rest my self, if not I will report back here!

Thanks for the help!