OT: Sophos CID password error

[Fred Dick]

Thanks everybody. It turns out that someone had added a valid users=@name
line to the smb.conf file thereby locking most users out.

Thanks for the help!!

Fred

At 08:31 PM 10/3/03, you wrote:
>On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 07:38, Martin Sapsed wrote:
> > Fred Dick wrote:
> > > Hi Sophos Gurus:
> > >
> > > Been getting the message when trying to auto update:
> > >
> > > Error: Could not find central installation setup program. The specified
> > > network password is not correct.
> > >
> > > Happens with 3.73 & 3.74. Win2k PC client running against Sun Solaris 2.6
> > > CID. Reset sweepupd passwd, account, uninstalled and reinstalled Sophos
> > > numerous times on both server and client. Any ideas??? This has been
> > > working fine for 2 years...no recent changes to system.
> >
> > I don't think it says so anywhere but my experience indicates that
> > Sophos autoupdate only works on XP (and presumably 2k) if encrypted
> > passwords work. Since I assume you're using Samba on the Sun, are you
> > accepting encrypted passwords? Although having just read your message
> > again, since it's been working for ages, I guess you are...!
> >
>
>Actually you need to add the sweepupd account in the following manner:
>
>http://www.sophos.com/sophos/docs/eng/supps/w2k_sen.pdf
>
>Stephen