[Samba] crazy smbpasswd

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 07:08, wing549 wrote:
> help!....im really confused, ...
> i created the user "Stealth" on my Linux redhat 7.3 machine and when i 
> configure my smb.conf file, for path = /home/Stealth, the machine would show 
> up in "Computers Near Me" on my other windoez 2000 machine, but would not 
> accept any passwords to the [share], when i run smbpasswd -a Stealth i get 
> this.........
> 
> getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (uid not number)
> getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :)
> getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :)
> getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :)
> getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no :)
> add_smbfilepwd_entry: unable to open file.
> Failed to add entry for user Stealth.
> Failed to modify password entry for user Stealth

Open your smbpasswd file in a text editor, and figure out why it looks
weird.  If it's not valuable to you yet, just delete it, and try again.

Andrew Bartlett

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