smbpasswd apparently not writing to /etc/samba/ files

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 13 April 2008 21:49, Mike Chambers wrote:
> 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.
>
Yes, I'm the one and only user on that box.

Anne