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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?
To add a user and password to the smbpasswd file you need to specify
the -a option. As root you'd want this to add a password for aUser:
# smbpasswd -a aUser
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