I am trying to set up Samba to share a printer on my network. I am using Potato 
2.2r2. 

I can see the Linux computer from Win98 but cannot enter the required password. 
I notice from /var/log/samba that there is a problem with no 
/etc/samba/smbpasswd entry for user 'default'. There is no /etc/samba/smbpasswd 
and this was an option from sambaconfig.

I have read that the problem may be that Samba is not complied for shadow 
passwords? I believe I chose these when originally installing potato. I do not 
know how to create /etc/samba/smbpasswd. The command smbpasswd reports an error 
on any password for any user. Even the user 'default' that I created. It does 
create an /etc/samba/smbpasswd but with just a header comment that does not 
show the requuired format.

Any clues to where I am going wrong?

Paul Clark

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