Problems with smbpasswd

[Andy Smith]

On Fri, Jun 25, 1999 at 03:21:41AM +1000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Andy Smith wrote:
> 
> > This setup has been working with an older (pre domain group) CVS version,
> > but running the latest CVS, a user's success at being able to log into
> > the domain depends on thier position in smbpasswd file.  I can manually
> > edit the file and change my entry from line 25 to line 26 and that will
> > prevent me from logging in.  The error at the workstation is that my
> > password is wrong, but if I move my entry even further down the file, the
> > error changes to the computer account is wrong.
> 
> check that entry 26 actually has a corresponding entry in /etc/passwd.

No, thats not it I'm afraid, I regularly run a few lines of perl that make
sure all the smbpasswd entries are still in the system password file.

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