[Samba] Bug or feature?

[Ryan Novosielski]

I attempted to write a catch-all command line that would add/enable/set
password for a user, to make sure they were in good shape upon a
reactivation of their account. However, in my opinion, the man pages are
incorrect when regarding the -e switch. -a and -e will not work together,
so the behavior of -e is not really benign if the user does not need
enabling. I guess this is somewhat of a gray area, as if the user does not
exist, a -e flag should probably fail... but... I guess what I'm asking is
was the intended behavior that -a -e would not work together (ie. if the
account does not exist, the -a will not be used either), or is -a -e
supposed to be a way to add/enable a user?

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[Samba] bug or feature

[gerben-bijhold]

Dear people,
 
I tried to install Samba on a few occations and on 
most of those occations i never got it to work. Now recently i tried it again on 
a Linux-Mandrake 8.0 PPC distribution running on an iMac.
This is all done:
- /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart:  works fine, 
SMB and NMB will stop and start;
- /etc/smb.conf and /etc/smbusers look 
okay;
- I added users with smbadduser and i also 
tried to use it without that;
- I used webmin to configure things and to make 
shares available;
- I installed Samba using the Linux-Mandrake 
installer using the binary on the distributiondisk.
 
All of those things work well and i can see the 
server from my windows box so Samba seems to be working.
 
The only thing i can't get to work is that Samba 
shows me it's shares. There must be something obvious and simple that i do 
wrong. Do you have any idea ?
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Gerben Bijhold 
(Netherlands)