Samba: Could not get smbpasswd to work. Problem?
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Apr 5 16:30:38 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 09:20 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Trying to get my Samba server running on FC5, but cannot seem
> to be able to get shares working right. I noticed that I had
> no entries in the /etc/samba/smbpasswd file so I tried to add
> my users via smbpasswd <user> and provided the passwords but
> smbpasswd failed to complete. Here is the results:
>
> [root at mysystem samba]# smbpasswd aUser
> New SMB password:
> Retype new SMB password:
> Failed to find entry for user aUser.
> Failed to modify password entry for user aUser
>
> I checked to make sure that this user had an account
> in the /etc/password file and yes, they do so I am not
> sure why smbpasswd is not accepting it.
>
> Anyone have problems with this?
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are you sure that samba would use /etc/samba/smbpasswd as backend?
what is output of 'testparm -s -v |grep passdb'
anyway...the way to add an smb user is
smbpasswd -a aUser
you are probably going to have to keep an eye on /var/log/messages to
see if there is SELinux issues too.
Craig
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