[Samba] Can't give smbpasswd.

Urban Widmark urban at teststation.com
Fri Mar 29 03:27:02 GMT 2002


On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Kjetil Tjensvold wrote:

> When I try to give the smbpasswd I get this error.
> unable to open passdb database
> Failed to find entry for user root
> Failed to modify password entry for user root.
> Any idea???

You must have an entry in your smbpasswd file before you can change your 
password.

'man smbpasswd', and look for the -a flag.

/Urban





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