Re: [MLUG] Samba, Samba, Samba

[Rick Buford <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

yes, for a couple of (eventually =) obvious reasons. 1) you don't want 
ftp to be able to access your shares (for example), and 2) the syntax 
for the smbusers file is completely different that /etc/passwd

Rick

Mark Haidekker wrote:

>On Wednesday 04 September 2002 10:18 am, you wrote:
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>>Here is what I have done so far:
>>1) useradd -m <username>
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>>2) passwd <username>
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>>3) cat /etc/passwd > mksmbpasswd.sh > /etc/samba/passwd
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>>4) smbpasswd <username>
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>>At this point I get an error stating: getsmbfilepwent: malformed password
>>entry (uid not number) Failed to find entry for user <username>
>>
>>any clues?
>>
>>Mike
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>You'd be better off using smbadduser instead of copying the unix password 
>file into the samba password file. I'd suggest you start with an empty smb 
>password file.
>
>Mark
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