On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 09:20 -0700, Dan Thurman wrote: > [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 Try like this: smbpassword -a johndoe And you'll *add* a "johndoe" user to the Samba password file. I think that you'd only be able to modify an existing Samba user's password (Samba user detailss are independent of the Linux system users) if you omit the -a option. -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.