[Samba] Unable to add machine

[Steve Tyler]

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 02:13, Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 03:43:47PM -0500, Steve Tyler wrote:
> > 
> > I have a setup using tdbsam as a backend, I can add accounts using
> > pdbedit -a <username> but I have only been able to add one machine
> > account.  I can't figure out why.
...
> Shouldn't the machine name DO exist in /etc/passwd? I usually do the
> following (taken from the official howto collection):
> 
> # useradd -g machines -d /dev/null -c "machine nickname" -s /bin/false machine_name$ 
> # passwd -l machine_name$
> # pdbedit -a -m machine_name 	(no `$' this time)
> 
> (the group machines is created beforehand) and if pdbedit doesn't do it
> then you could still use smbpasswd, it seems to work with tdbsam as well.
> 
> # smbpasswd -a -m machine_name
> 
> HTH

Thanks for the suggestion, I did already try this.  I tried again:

Unable to modify TDB passwd ! Error: Record exists
 occured while storing the RID index (RID_00000bbe)
Unable to add machine! (does it already exist?)