On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 09:30 -0700, Craig White wrote: > 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? > ---- > are you sure that samba would use /etc/samba/smbpasswd as backend? Apparently, when I used the -a option, the user entries are added to /etc/samba/smbpasswd. I checked. I now have my users added but now the next step is to get samba configuration right so that group-defined users have samba share access rights only. I am now fiddling with the shares. Trying to grant browser rights only to members of the samba group I created. But seems there is only a binary value allowed for the browseable: Yes or No. Any idea how to set a share as browseable but only for allowed users? Thanks for responding! Dan > > what is output of 'testparm -s -v |grep passdb' > > anyway...the way to add an smb user is > > smbpasswd -a aUser > > you are probably going to have to keep an eye on /var/log/messages to > see if there is SELinux issues too. > > Craig >
