Comments on: Samba doesn’t like special characters in ldap password https://mymegabyte.com/2008/06/samba-doesnt-like-special-characters-in-ldap-password/ Random tech things that I come across. Mon, 19 Feb 2018 02:25:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 By: Matthew Lam https://mymegabyte.com/2008/06/samba-doesnt-like-special-characters-in-ldap-password/comment-page-1/#comment-67 Fri, 15 May 2009 08:56:52 +0000 http://www.mymegabyte.com/?p=3#comment-67 I ran into a similar problem using Fedora 10 and FDS 1.2. It had the same error message.

What I did was quote it instead of escaping it:

smbpasswd -w “my.c0mPl1cat3d.P@ssW3rd”

And presto, it worked as well.

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