On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 09:20 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: > Folks, > > Trying to get my Samba server running on FC5, but cannot seem > to be able to get shares working right. I noticed that I had > no entries in the /etc/samba/smbpasswd file so I tried to add > my users via smbpasswd <user> and provided the passwords but > smbpasswd failed to complete. Here is the results: > > [root@mysystem samba]# smbpasswd aUser > New SMB password: > Retype new SMB password: > Failed to find entry for user aUser. > Failed to modify password entry for user aUser > > I checked to make sure that this user had an account > in the /etc/password file and yes, they do so I am not > sure why smbpasswd is not accepting it. > > Anyone have problems with this? > > Kind regards, > Dan > Sorry. I RTFM and got it. I needed to add the "-a" for NEW users. Kind regards, Dan
