[Samba] Re: passdb not found

[Florian Stahl]

Hi maq,

I have seen this with RedHat 8.0 the other day

try adding users with

#] smbadduser <LINUX_USERNAME>:<WIN_USERNAME> 

whereas Linux and Win Username are usually the same...

if this did not work, I had a blank file /etc/samba/smbpasswd created
and used the above command again.

florian

fstahl at xantury.com

> 
> Check the permissions and location of your passwd file?
> Normally it is in /etc/passwd
> 
> maraqas wrote:
> > Hello,
> >     i've got a Redhat 8.0 installation. I tried to 
> configure my linux box to
> > run the
> > samba server and share some dirs and a printer. When i try 
> to connect from a
> > Windows machine, the request fails and the log says: unable 
> to open passdb
> > database. The same result i get if trying to run smbpasswd 
> <user_name> from
> > the linux box itself.
> > What can i do? Do you need any additional info?
> > 
> > maq
> > 
> 
> 
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