ARGHHHH! Simple problem I'm sure.

[Robert Dahlem]

Dwayne,

On Sun, 5 Nov 2000 13:40:24 -0500, King, Dwayne wrote:

>On another note, I have been taking a look in the logs, and found the
>following:
>
>[2000/11/05 13:37:03, 1] smbd/password.c:(505)
>  Couldn't find user 'nobody' in smb_passwd file.
>[2000/11/05 13:37:03, 1] smbd/reply.c:(909)
>  Rejecting user 'nobody': authentication failed

This may be the reason why anonymous logins fail.

>Even though I have executed the following command successfully:
>
>addtosmbpass dking strang root nobody < /dev/null >samba.pwd

Are you _really_ sure samba.pwd is the right file in the right 
directory? Does it have correct entries?

>BTW, how does samba know the name of the password file I want to use?