[Samba] Machine-level shares on Windows server

Gerald (Jerry) Carter jerry at samba.org
Fri Aug 8 11:41:39 GMT 2008


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Jeremy Evans wrote:

> I've found that I can't access the share (or even get the 
> list of shares as in the examples below) using the -P
> (--machine-password) switch, so I get the choice of
> 
> $smbclient -P -L //sbs
> Failed to open /var/lib/samba/secrets.tdb
> ERROR: Unable to open secrets database

You don't appear to be root.  Secrets.tdb is rw for root only.




cheers, jerry
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