Samba: Could not get smbpasswd to work. Problem?

[Tim]

On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 09:20 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote:
> [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

Try like this:  smbpassword -a johndoe

And you'll *add* a "johndoe" user to the Samba password file.  I think
that you'd only be able to modify an existing Samba user's password
(Samba user detailss are independent of the Linux system users) if you
omit the -a option.

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