[Samba] Re: passdb not found
Florian Stahl
fstahl at xantury.com
Mon Feb 24 23:36:47 GMT 2003
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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