On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 20:48 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > 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... ---- a samba user - say 'gene' must also be a Linux user too. there are many different password db systems that can be used for samba but /etc/samba/smbpasswd is the default if not specified otherwise. You may wish to check what you have set in smb.conf # testparm -sv |grep passdb by default, perms on smb.conf are 644 # ls -l /etc/samba/smb.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4210 Feb 1 2005 /etc/samba/smb.conf Official Samba documentation is here... http://samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ Craig
