problem with the new rpm file

Simon Hyde shyde at poboxes.com
Sun Feb 1 00:21:40 GMT 1998


On Sun, 1 Feb 1998 06:52:47 +1100, you wrote:

>I just dl'd samba-1.9.18p2-42.8.i386.rpm for my system from the samba web
>site. I got the one meant for rh 4.2 because that is what I have. I performed
>the upgrade and my NT box (nt4 sp3) cannot login because the password is
>wrong. Ok, I'll just run smbpasswd again and make sure it is the same as the
>one on win nt. The problem is that I cant run smbpasswd, I get the error:
>Permission Denied, even if I try and run the command as root (I used chmod to
>make smbpasswd executable by normal users).
>
>Ok, I thought that maybe this version was compiled with its smbpasswd file
>option pointing somewhere else than where mine currently is:
>/usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd ... which is the default.
>
>I also placed the following line in my smb.conf:
>smb passwd file = /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd

This would be /etc/smb.conf, not /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf?


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