How you create your /etc/passwd entry? If by hand remove! If your linux is embee... you need use command for adding user to unix and then to samba. 1. # useradd pbathini (or adduser ...) 2. # smbpasswd -a pbathini
if this not work then yuor samba need recompile to locate proper password user files of linux. Bye. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 1:25 PM Subject: RE: [Samba] smbpasswd -a failure > They need a Unix account before you can create a smbpasswd account. > > Ken > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > g]On Behalf > > Of Pushpa Bathini > > Sent: 18 June 2003 7:14 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [Samba] smbpasswd -a failure > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to run Samba 2.2.8a in an embedded linux system and > > running into problems with smbpasswd. With both smbd and nmbd > > processes running fine ( the log files at log level 3 don't show > > errors), > > when I try to add a user to the smbpasswd file I get the following > > error. > > > > # smbpasswd -a pbathini > > New SMB password: > > Retype new SMB passwd: > > User pbathini does not exist in system passwd file ( usually > > /etc/passwd). > > Cannot add accounet without a valid local system user. > > Failed to modify password entry for user pbathini > > # > > > > > > My /etc/passwd file looks like this. > > > > root::0:0:root:/:/bin/sh > > nobody::99:99:Nobody:/:/bin/sh > > pbathini::500:500::/cramfs:/bin/sh > > > > Why is smbpasswd unable to find user entry in /etc/passwd file? > > Can somebody please help? > > > > Pushpa > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba