I did as you told me, but it doesn't work. The user's line also doesn't have the XXXXX... part, but just any other types. Do I have to delete the user and recreate him to get him work with an empty password?
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: C. Falconer [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet am: Freitag, 6. Oktober 2000 23:03 An: Christian Schoenebeck Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Betreff: Re: some general (samba) questions At 06:23 PM 10/6/00 +0200, you wrote: >I've got some questions. Hope that somebody can help me with that. >Is it possible to create a samba-user with an empty password? Because if I >try so with smbpasswd the program denies the change. Edit /etc/samba/smbpasswd and change the user's line from bob:3000:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:[U ]:LCT-363F96AD: to bob:3000:NO PASSWORDXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX:[U ]:LCT-363F96AD: