On Saturday 13 January 2007 16:12, Craig White wrote: [...] >---- >If you are speaking of password entries in /etc/samba/smbpasswd, those >are the already hashed password using standard Windows NT hash >algorithm. > >If you want to set a password for say, user gene... > >smbpasswd gene >(it prompts you to enter a password) > >this is then 'hashed' and written to /etc/samba/smbpasswd > >Craig Thanks Craig. I added gene to smbusers, which looked ok, and I hoped that would stop smbpasswd from complaining about a non-existent user, but it didn't. And it still won't set a passwd hash into the smbpasswd file which is currently 0600 and owned by root, and zero bytes long. And I was doing that as root of course... -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
