Why does smbpasswd not work for some users?

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 18:29 +0100, Bob Latham wrote:
> On 29 Aug, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:
> 
> [Snip]
> 
> > > Processing section "[sg2]" Loaded services file OK. 
> > > Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE passdb backend = tdbsam
> 
> > ---- that last line, 'passdb backend = tdbsam' means that you aren't
> > using smbpasswd for your data store for users which is a good thing
> > since tdbsam is more substantial than a flat file. 
> 
> Excellent. Some good news at last.
> 
> > Users / passwords are stored in
> > /var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb|secrets.tdb
> 
> > You might want to up the debugging level to find out if/why it's failing
> > then try that.
> 
> Sounds like a good suggestion, I'll get to google and find out how to do
> that, (says he thinking 'I bet that will take some finding').
----
edit /etc/samba/smb.conf

add...

log level = 3

(or perhaps higher...up to 10 for more information) check your log files
(they're in /var/log/samba) for the increased activity and clues to any
problems

Craig