On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:48 +0100, Kevin Thorpe wrote: > On 23/06/2009 10:43, JohnS wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:25 +0100, Kevin Thorpe wrote: > > > > > > > [root@database samba]# smbpasswd kevin > > > New SMB password: > > > Retype new SMB password: > > > Failed to find entry for user kevin. > > > Failed to modify password entry for user kevin > > > > > > Yet I can still connect to the shares as kevin..... strange > > > > > --- > > And replying to you again if the user "kevin" is a System User You will > > still be able to connect to the share. > > > Oh. Does that mean that Samba looks in passdb.tdb first then falls > back to passwd/shadow? --- Ok, what I mean is when kevin is a system user. Then you do smbpasswd kevin and enter a password samba uses the .tdb database when security = user. When security = AD samba checks the Active Directory LDAP Database first. This help on explaining it? John _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos