[Samba] smbpasswd

[Ryan Novosielski]

Do not use -e. -e is for enable, which I suppose will fail if the user
does not exist. Users are enabled by default. Do:

smbpasswd -a <user>

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On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Anonymous wrote:

> I'm new in SMB and Linux in gerneral, I've tried to set up samba;
> I created a new user in Linux using useradd, after that I wanted to create the same user for samba using "smbpasswd -a -e username"
> but I get an error saying "unable to open passdb database ERROR: Unable to lacate username in passdb!"
>
> thx a lot for any help
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