Comment 34 for bug 810732

Hi

I had a working configuration with Mac OSX Lion successfully backing up via TM onto Ubuntu 12.04 desktop. I then tried to get a Samsung Netbook (with Windows 7 Starter edition) to connect to Ubuntu using Samba for a backup. Tried everything but gave up in the end. During that process my TM backups started to fail.

I have just investigated that and have observed the same error reported here. I tried the -mimicmodel fix and this made no difference. I then found http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=29229826 and confirmed that during my Samba work the /etc/pam.d/common-auth file had indeed changed. I removed the 'pam_smbpass.so' (clearly related to Samba) reference and the problem has gone away. (Big thanks to HAT).

John