On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:21:46 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 15:10:15 -0500, Kent West wrote: >> >> (...) >> >> >>> westk[@]goshen]:/home/westk:> sudo smbpasswd -a amyld New SMB >>> password: Retype new SMB password: >>> Unable to modify TDB passwd: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL! Failed to add >>> entry for user amyld. >>> Failed to modify password entry for user amyld >>> >>> >> (...) >> >> Does the same happen when adding the user with "pdbedit"? >> >> >> > pdbedit -a amyld > > does work!
Hey, great! :-) > Is "pdbedit" the preferred way now instead of using "smbpasswd -a"? If > so, I'm content with this as a fix, so long as it doesn't hurt anything > that "smbpasswd -a" is broken. > > Thanks! I can't tell what's better or worse... last time I had to setup my samba users I went with pdbedit, it seemed to me more complete: http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba3-HOWTO/passdb.html#acctmgmttools OTOH, both tools should work over the same user database you have setup, whatever it is (smbpasswd, tdbsam...). Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.08.19.20.44...@gmail.com
