issue calling samba-tool

[Michael Wood]

On 31 Jul 2014 8:28 AM, "David Rivera" <rivera.david87 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm guessing you are trying to add a user. Your command is missing add
> after /bin/samba-tool before username.

Also "user".

It should be:

samba-tool user add username ...

> On Jul 30, 2014 11:13 PM, "David Bear" <dwbear75 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm scripting a call to samba tool and ran in to an error with
samba-tool
> > not taking a documented parameter.
> >
> > The call to samba-tool looks like this:
> >
> > /bin/samba-tool username  p at ssw0rd  --given-name=joe --surname=adams
> >  --gecos=189  --mailaddess=joadams at heritageacademyaz.com
> > Usage: samba-tool <subcommand>
> >
> > samba-tool: error: no such option: --given-name
> >
> > As you see, the tool comes back with an option error. Everywhere I read
> > both in code on pydoc and various web sites there IS an option called
> > '--given-name' -- I even copy pasted out of the module where these names
> > are defined.
> >
> > I'm lost. Why would samba-tool  report there is no such option ...
> >
> > Please, any help?
> >
> > --
> > David Bear
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> >