Using the "nis" scripts to add users in Samba
Santomauro, Deborah
deborah.santomauro at lmco.com
Wed Aug 15 15:10:38 GMT 2001
Greetings,
I have been wrestling with this problem for quite a few days now. I'm trying
to add a user - tried first the usual method of SWAT, then smbpasswd, and
both returned errors of "failing to add 'joeuser'". In going back to the
source directory where I first installed Samba, I came across some "nis"
scripts that look like they can be used to add users automatically to the
smbpasswd file.
First I ran mknissmbpasswd.sh:
# niscat passwd.org_dir | ./mknissmbpasswd.sh >
/usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd
smbpasswd.org_dir.asas.ast.lmco.com.: Not found.
smbpasswd.org_dir.asas.ast.lmco.com.: Not found.
smbpasswd.org_dir.asas.ast.lmco.com.: Not found.
smbpasswd.org_dir.asas.ast.lmco.com.: Not found.
Next I tried to run mknissmbpwdtbl.sh:
# ./mknissmbpwdtbl.sh
can't create table: Permission denied.
Unable to create group "smb.asas.ast.lmco.com.": Permission denied
smb.asas.ast.lmco.com.: group not found
Question: do these have to run on the master server?
To reiterate (I had mentioned this in previous 'help' emails) I installed
Samba on a Sparc5 running Solaris 2.7 with automount/NFS/NIS+ (master
server, an Enterprise 4000, does not have Samba).
Please can someone tell me what I need to do to get this working? I really
need to get this up and going as soon as possible.
TIA,
Deborah
Deborah Santomauro
Unix System Administrator
Lockheed Martin Mission Systems
email: deborah.santomauro at lmco.com
Work: 303-971-7333
Fax: 303-977-4965
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