Solaris 11.1 smb share pam.conf

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I would like to enable an SMB share on Solaris 11.1 x64
My steps:

  1. pkg install service/filesystem/smb
  2. svcadm enable -r smb/server
  3. echo "other password required pam_smb_passwd.so.1 nowarn" >> /etc/pam.conf
  4. useradd public
  5. smbadm enable-user public
  6. zfs set share=name=fs1,path=/rpool/fs1,prot=smb rpool/fs1
  7. zfs set sharesmb=on rpool/fs1
  8. passwd -r files public

Step 8 failes: It is not possible to enter a password, output is:

solaris> passwd -r files public

Please try again

Please try again
Permission denied

If I uncomment the new line in pam.conf, it is possible to change the password.
Nevertheless, it is not possible to access the share from Windows 7. The Solaris machine is reachable with ping.

Access with another SMB enabled user is denied too.

Best Answer

Hit the same problem myself, reading the docs the PAM configuration has been split off into a directory and sub-files, like linux if your familiar with that?

To resolve the problem remove the line from the /etc/pam.conf file and add to the /etc/pam.d/other file as follows...

# echo "password required    pam_smb_passwd.so.1    nowarn" >> /etc/pam.d/other

You should then be able to set the password for 'public'

IMHO the Oracle documentation for Solaris 11 is way better than Sun ever produced, I found the answer on this page...

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26502_01/html/E29004/configuringoperationmodetm.html#configureworkgroupmodetask

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