Enabling SWAT

[Jon L.Gardner]

Is there a way to get Samba to keep the smbpasswd file entries 
synchronized with the /etc/passwd (or NIS, or NetInfo) entries? From 
what I'm seeing, we'll end up having to change passwords twice...once 
for UNIX, again for Samba (I know there's a way to update the UNIX 
password when the Samba password is changed from a client, but most of 
my clients aren't using CIFS clients).

On Sunday, January 13, 2002, at 04:02 PM, Marc R. Hoffman wrote:

> I had the same authentication error. This fixed it for me. Make sure 
> that you run the following as "root":
>
> cat "/etc/passwd" | mksmbpasswd.sh > /etc/samba/smbpasswd
>
> You will need to restart Samba so that it uses this file. I just 
> rebooted to make sure things were restarted properly.
>
> You will then need to update it to have your password. You can do this
> by running the following command:
>
> smbpasswd -u [USERNAME]
>

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