smbpasswd apparently not writing to /etc/samba/ files

[Mike Chambers]

On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 16:43 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> Using smbpasswd -a anne does not add the user or write to the password file.  
> What am I missing?

Stupid question, but does "anne" already exist in the /etc/passwd file?
Unless something has changed, the username must exist on the system
first, then you can add it via samba.

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