[Samba] where is the SAM file?

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 00:37, John H Terpstra wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, [iso-8859-1] Alceu R. de Freitas Jr. wrote:
> 
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > I tryng to setup some policies with pdbedit in Samba
> > 2.2.8a. I´ve never used this tool before, and now I´m
> 
> pdbedit is a new tool that will come with samba-3.0.0.
> It does not exist in samba-2.2.x.

It does - it's former incarnation exists for the non-smbpasswd backends,
and has had a major overhaul in the transition to 3.0

> > asking myself: where is located the SAM file? I
> > allways dealed with smbpasswd, never with SAM file.
> 
> The Samba SAM concept is new to samba-3.0.0.

But the passdb.tdb file is in the 'private dir' (where smbpasswd is
kept).

> > Samba creates it on the fly, or what?
> > Anybody could explain or point a documentation where I
> > could find more information about it?
> 
> There is a HOWTO that is a work-in-progress. You may find it at:
> 
> http://samba.org/~jht/NT4migration/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.pdf
> 
> This will be part of samba-3.0.0 when it ships.
> 
> - John T.
> 
> >
> > Thanks to all,
> >
> >
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