Don't get it (am I stupid?)

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

you must run smbpasswd as root.  actually, for security reasons you should
use rpclclient.

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, Martijn Grendelman wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I am new to this list, new to Samba-TNG and new to CVS-stuff, so I apologize
> in advance if my question is really stupid. Today I got the latest
> CVS-source for Samba-MAIN and Samba-TNG, to try to experiment a little with
> Samba as a PDC.
> 
> I read all the READMEs and I read Lars Kneschke's FAQ, but there MUST be
> something I'm missing. When I try to add a machine account for my NT
> Workstation by I see:
> 
> martijn at Serv2> pwd
> /usr/local/samba/bin
> martijn at Serv2> ./smbpasswd -a -m testmg
> smbpasswd: illegal option -- a
> smbpasswd [options] [password]
> options:
>   -s                   use stdin for password prompt
>   -D LEVEL             debug level
>   -U USER              remote username
>   -r MACHINE           remote machine
> 
> What's wrong with my "smbpasswd" and how do I get one that works?
> 
> Thanx,
> Martijn.
> 

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