[Samba] smbpasswd and /etc/samba/smbusers

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been Googling around trying to found why I can't make SAMBA
> (concretely smbpasswd and pdbedit) make good use of the information
> held in the file /etc/samba/smbusers. I have done a clean install of
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4.1 Update 3 (both x86_64 and IA32) and
> Fedora Core 5. In all cases, running the following command fails:
> 
> # smbpasswd -a Administrator
> New SMB password:
> Retype new SMB password:
> Failed to initialise SAM_ACCOUNT for user Administrator. Does this
> user exist in the UNIX password database ?
> Failed to modify password entry for user Administrator
> 
> Even though /etc/samba/smbusers look like this:
> 
> root = Administrator admin

You add root and not administrator.  This is by design.
When in security = user, think of the username map as
simply an alias file used for authentication requests.
smbpasswd and pdbedit work below that layer.




cheers, jerry
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