[Samba] "Failed to create Users" problem.

[Daryl]

Hi everybody,

       I have been struggling to get my Windows XP box to be able to 
access my samba server. When samba starts, I see the following my my 
/var/log/samba/log.smb file:

  smbd version 3.0.25b-2.fc7 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2007
[2007/07/31 20:22:43, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(792)
  create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators
[2007/07/31 20:22:43, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(758)
  create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users
[2007/07/31 20:22:43, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_administrators(792)
  create_builtin_administrators: Failed to create Administrators
[2007/07/31 20:22:43, 0] auth/auth_util.c:create_builtin_users(758)
  create_builtin_users: Failed to create Users

       Through various Google searches, I have found that when people 
say they get this error, it means samba will not work at all. Though 
samba does stay running:

# ps aux | grep mbd
root      4428  0.0  0.1   8996  1288 ?        Ss   20:22   0:00 nmbd -D
root      4679  0.0  0.2  13704  2236 ?        Ss   21:09   0:00 smbd -D
root      4681  0.0  0.0  13704   924 ?        S    21:09   0:00 smbd -D

       When I try to access \\www in Explorer from my XP box, I get an 
alert that says, "Windows cannot find '\\www'. Check the spelling and 
try again, [etc...]" (same when I try by IP). When I access "smb:/" and 
navigate through the tree in Konqueror on the samba server itself, 
everything works fine. I can ping back-and-forth between the two 
machines by name and IP just fine.
       My passwords seem in order:

# pdbedit -L
daryl:500:Daryl Beattie
tv:522:Television

       My workgroup is named "home" on both client and server, my 
hostname matches my netbios name (as defined in smb.conf, it is 
"www")... The only thing slightly abnormal that I have is that my /files 
share has a different group than its owner --but I've fiddled with the 
group permissions (i.e. setting them back to same owner/group) and that 
doesn't seem to help.
       Here is my testparm output:

# testparm
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf
Processing section "[homes]"
Processing section "[files]"
Processing section "[downloads]"
Loaded services file OK.
Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE
Press enter to see a dump of your service definitions

[global]
        workgroup = HOME
        server string = Samba Server Version %v
        passdb backend = tdbsam
        username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
        log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
        max log size = 50
        socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_KEEPALIVE SO_RCVBUF=8192 
SO_SNDBUF=8192 IPTOS_LOWDELAY
        idmap uid = 10000-20000
        idmap gid = 10000-20000
        hosts allow = 192.168.0.

[homes]
        comment = Home Directories
        read only = No

[files]
        path = /files
        read only = No
        guest ok = Yes

[downloads]
        path = /home/daryl/documents/downloads
        valid users = daryl, tv
        read only = No
        browseable = No


       This problem has been driving me nuts for a while, because 
everything /used to/ work fine with an almost identical setup on my old 
Fedora Core 5 machine (same filesystem directories, same users, etc; 
they were moved from one machine to the other). But looking at the logs 
on that machine, I never had a "Failed to create Users" error message.
       I'd greatly appreciate any help anybody could give me.

Sincerely,

       Daryl.