Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 00:21:29 -0500 From: Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: "Jaideep Bhatia" <jaideep.bhatia@wipro.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Samba refuses to login into home directory Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20020308001726.00c51918@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <004301c1c65f$dddb15c0$1151a8c0@Jaideep> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020307234340.00c46b68@pop-server.nyc.rr.com>
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At 10:42 2002/03/08 +0530, Jaideep Bhatia wrote: >Thanks Scott. I tried smbpasswd -a <windows_user_name> as root. But got >the following error. > >gogo# smbpasswd -a jaideep >New SMB password: >Retype new SMB password: >User jaideep does not exist in system password file (usually >/etc/passwd). Cannot add account without a valid local system user. >Failed to modify password entry for user jaideep I'm pretty sure that that's the standard error (haven't done this in a long time, so not 100 percent sure) You might have to restart the Windows box, (maybe not, just seems that one always has to do that though) :) and stop and restart smbd and nmbd. See if it works then. The trouble is that I haven't done a setup of samba from scratch in awhile, so my memory is hazy--you may or may not have to add user jbhatia once more to smbpasswd---or maybe just do smbpasswd Jaideep (without the -a--otherwise, you might get the error that user jbhatia already exists.) Sorry I can't be of more help here. Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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