Samba: Could not get smbpasswd to work. Problem?
Dan Thurman
dant at cdkkt.com
Fri Apr 7 03:02:14 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 05:42 +0930, Tim wrote:
> 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.
>
Oh! A bit late, but thanks anyway! Got it solved.
Kind regards,
Dan
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