Unable to login to CIFS ZFS share and windows prompting for password


I setup my share right, followed all the instructions, set the /etc/pam.conf entry.  Couldn’t get into my share, and my password wouldn’t work.

I found that you can test your PAM mapping like so:

smbutil login –c username

But that gave me:

Keychain entry not found.

 

Ok, had to do a little searching…  found out that you can SET THE STORED PASSWORD FOR SMB!  Duh!  Why didn’t I think of that in the first place?  LOL!

All you need to do is this:

smbutil login username@server

It will ask you for a password and suddenly your login from windows will work! Nice!

Keep in mind, that is assuming your server is setup in workgroup mode, joined to your workgroup not the domain.  I think you would just specify “username@netbiosdomain” in that case.