[Samba] Problems adding a user

[Paul]

I am having problems adding a user.  Here is some background: OK this is my
first attempt to build a Samba server so be gentle.  

 

Operating System: Fedora Core 3

Samba version: 3.0.10-1.fc3

 

I have set up a Stand-alone server to support my 4 client machines (all
WinXP boxes w/o a domain).  I had some difficulties getting things to work
and eventually traced them down to a Firestarter (1.0.0) and I had to turn
"block broadcasts" off. 

 

Up to now I'd been playing with two user accounts.  

 

Linux user pst = Win user Paul

Linux user ljk  = Win user Lisa

 

I've added and deleted these accounts a number of times (both the Samba
accounts and the Fedora accounts). After I turned broadcasts off  I got Paul
working fine.  But when I tried to get Lisa working this is what happens:

 

Applications => System Settings => Server Settings => Samba

 

 From the Samba GUI I selected: Preferences => Samba Users

 

 From the "Samba Users" window I select Add Users

 

And enter:

 

Unix Username: ljk (from drop down menu) 

Windows Username: lisa 

Samba Password: Supersecret 

Confirm Samba Password: Supersercret

 

I get the following error message:

! An Account for this user already exists. Please try again.

 

Now neither ljk nor lisa is listed on the Samba Users window, and there is a
user account ljk on Fedora.

 

So I tried to delete ljk as follows:

 

[root at localhost pst]# smbpasswd -x ljk

Deleted user ljk.

[root at localhost pst]# smbpasswd -x lisa

Failed to initialise SAM_ACCOUNT for user lisa. Does this user exist in the
UNIX password database ?

Failed to modify password entry for user lisa [root at localhost pst]#

 

What worries me is if I enter try and delete ljk again, expecting an error
message saying the user doesn't exist I get:

 

[root at localhost pst]# smbpasswd -x ljk 

Deleted user ljk.

[root at localhost pst]# smbpasswd -x ljk

Deleted user ljk.

 

This is not what I expected.  If I go back to the Samba GUI and try and add
ljk I get the same results as I showed at the start of this message.

 

Since then I have added two other users successfully.  So what am I doing
wrong with Lisa?

 

Paul