I solved it. just used the default : passwd backend = smbpasswd by >>> "Alexander Varga" <AlexanderVarga at usske.sk> 07/14/04 10:54AM >>> hi why is my always /usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd of zero size? I add an user with "smbpasswd -a username" and only the files secrets.tdb passdb.tdb changed. any ideas? Alex