smbpasswd apparently not writing to /etc/samba/ files

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Monday 14 April 2008 11:32:25 Adam Huffman wrote:
>   
>> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> 
>>     
> wrote:
>   
>>> Using smbpasswd -a anne does not add the user or write to the password
>>> file. What am I missing?
>>>       
>> Yes, the newer versions use TDB.  pdbedit is the tool to query the
>> database.
>>
>>     
> On most previous versions I have been able to see the user added to smbusers.  
> Now there doesn't seem to be any visual check that it has 'taken'.  Do I have 
> to install webmin to see whether the user is recognised?
>
> Anne
>   
pdbedit -w -L from cli should list those users for ya...

You can also use system-config-samba ( gui )
if you are doing this on a laptop/workstation/desktop machine..

yum install system-config-samba if it's missing..

Best regards
                  Johann B.