smbpasswd does not find user entries

[Buchan Milne]

Maybe you should try:

smbpasswd -a <username>

to add the user. smbpasswd <username> will only change an existing entry.


> Message: 1
> Date:	Fri, 25 Jan 2002 14:35:11 +0100
> From: Roland Schmid <linux at net-service-24.de>
> Reply-To: Roland Schmid <linux at net-service-24.de>
> To: Vincent Lammers <lammers at digitalfaktur.de>
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: smbpasswd does not find user entries
> 
> 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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