Samba 2.07 smbpasswd problem

Ryan Detert rcdetert at ucdavis.edu
Sat Oct 14 23:15:00 GMT 2000


Make sure that userone already has an account on your solaris machine. 
then run smbpasswd again.

-ryu

> Hope somebody out there can help.
> 
> I'm trying to setup Samba 2.07 on Solaris 8. It now compiles, builds and
> installs cleanly, and creating a conf file is no problem, but when I
> come to do a - 
> 
> smbpasswd -a userone
> 
> I get the message -
> 
> make_sam_from_nisresult:NIS+ lookup failure: Database for table does not
> exist.
> Failed to add entry for user userone.
> Failed to modify password entry for userone.
> 
> userone exists in the password and shadow tables that have been used to
> populate NIS+, and doing a niscat passwd.org_dir shows the user
> correctly. Anyone any ideas as I am a bit out of my depth.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Chris.
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