[Samba] Samba problems

[John H Terpstra]

On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Spiro Philopoulos wrote:

>  I'm trying the latest versions of Samba on a LRP box (kernel 2.2.19), namely
> versions 2.2.7a and 2.2.8, but whenever I try to access a share it fails and
> the smbd log has the following error message:
>
>     build_sam_account: smbpasswd database is corrupt!  username smb1 not in
> unix passwd database!

Email me your smb.conf and smbpasswd file please to <jht at samba.org> - NOT
to this list.

>
>  I have the user accounts defined in the smbpasswd file and in /etc/passwd.
> When using an older version (2.0.4b) I have no problems at all. Also, when
> trying to change a Samba password using smbpasswd I get a similar error message:
>
>   build_sam_account: smbpasswd database is corrupt!  username smb1 not in unix
> passwd database!
>   Failed to find entry for user smb1.
>   Failed to modify password entry for user smb1
>
>  I configured it during the build to use the traditional smbpasswd file. Does
> anybody know what this is?.
>  Another issue is that nmbd won't start up if I have "interfaces = all"

If you want all interfaces (even if it is just one) comment out this line.
ie: Comment out "interfaces ="

> specified in the global section of smb.conf, which again wasn't a problem with
> the older version.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>

- John T.
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John H Terpstra
Email: jht at samba.org