[Samba] samba PDC problems

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 17:43, David "3oz" Sonenberg wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a samba PDC. I've been following
> the directions in "The Official Samab-3" book. I still
> don't understand how to add users! I'm using tdbsam
> and I set up all the add user scripts and what not in
> the smb.conf. pdbedit won't let me do anything unless
> I add the user with adduser(what's the point of the
> scripts?) and even when I add the user by hand I get
> this error message. 
> 
> [root at samba samba]# pdbedit -a -u test 
> new password: 
> retype new password: 
> Unable to open/create TDB passwd 
> tdb_update_sam: Unable to open TDB passwd
> (/etc/samba/secrets.tdb)! 
> Unable to add user! (does it already exist?) 
> 
> I'm sure I just understand the process and none of the
> docs seem to explain it clearly. Any help you can give
> would be appreciated. Anyway here's my smb.conf: 
> 
> [global] 
> netbios name = SAMBA 
> workgroup = WORKGROUP 
> passdb backend = tdbsam:/etc/samba/secrets.tdb 
> 
> # Scripts 
> add user script = /usr/sbin/useradd -m %u 
> delete user script = /usr/sbin/userdel =r %u 
> add group script = /usr/sbin/groupadd %g 
> delete group script = /usr/sbin/groupdel %g 
> add user to group script = /usr/sbin/usermod -G %g %u 
> add machine script = /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/false
> -d /dev/null %u 
> 
> os level = 33 
> preferred master = yes 
> domain master = yes 
> local master = yes 
> security = user 
> domain logons = yes 
> logon path = \\%N\profiles\%u 
> logon drive = H: 
> logon script = logon.bat 
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looks good - how about some of these...

smbpasswd -a root
smbpasswd root

cat /etc/samba/smbusers

smbpasswd -w (root_passwd)

Craig