smbpasswd does not find user entries

Roland Schmid linux at net-service-24.de
Fri Jan 25 05:39:12 GMT 2002


Hello,

maybe the user you want to add to smbpasswd doesn't exist in the OS.
You can't add a new user to the smbpasswd if this user doesn't exist
in the OS. Look also at the manpages.

Roland

> Hi,
> whenever i try to create or change a user with ambpasswd i get back the
> following message:
> Failed to find entry for user $user
> Failed to modify password entry for user $user

> Whats wrong there?

> Thanks for your help in advance


> Vincent





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