At 02:52 PM 3/2/2005, Ken Schneider wrote: On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 15:26, Jack Malone wrote:
I have tried to add samba users with both webmin an smbpasswd command an get erors . using smbpasswd i get the following
horizon:~ # smbpasswd -a jack ERROR: empty passdb backend list! New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: invalid pdb_context specified! Failed to add entry for user jack. Failed to modify password entry for user jack
I have just installed suse 9.2 from scratch on this machine again after adding new raid card an hd's. I have never seen this before.
thanks for any help.
jack
If the /etc/samba/smbpasswd file does not exist then: smbpasswd -a jack /etc/samba/smbpasswd should create the file for you and get rid of the error. the file does exist.
Okay I'm a non-nerdie newbie... I just tried to take a look at my Suse 9.2 file server, both locally and by VNC. It serves files and printer just fine to my Windows boxes... but all I get to see is a hung screensaver when I try to wake it up... I tried Ctrl-Alt F1 etc, but it doesn't budge... But the files and printer still get served, so I feel inclinded to leave it... until I can find out what mysterious key combination will get me to a command prompt to run init 3... Any suggestions? :) Rgds Martin
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 23:12:20 +0100, Martin Cleaver
Okay I'm a non-nerdie newbie...
I just tried to take a look at my Suse 9.2 file server, both locally and by VNC. It serves files and printer just fine to my Windows boxes... but all I get to see is a hung screensaver when I try to wake it up... I tried Ctrl-Alt F1 etc, but it doesn't budge... But the files and printer still get served, so I feel inclinded to leave it... until I can find out what mysterious key combination will get me to a command prompt to run init 3... Any suggestions? :)
Rgds
Martin
resent to list... sorry. ctrl-alt-backspace, that should kill X
On Wednesday 02 March 2005 23:12, Martin Cleaver wrote:
Okay I'm a non-nerdie newbie...
I just tried to take a look at my Suse 9.2 file server, both locally and by VNC. It serves files and printer just fine to my Windows boxes... but all I get to see is a hung screensaver when I try to wake it up... I tried Ctrl-Alt F1 etc, but it doesn't budge... But the files and printer still get served, so I feel inclinded to leave it... until I can find out what mysterious key combination will get me to a command prompt to run init 3... Any suggestions? :)
I hope you have an ssh server running on that file server. If so, you can login on that box in text-mode with: ssh root@host_name or ssh root@host_ip You can do that from a virtual terminal, or a konsole or an xterm window. If you can't use a Linux box, use putty instead. That's an ssh client that runs on windows (google for putty+windows). Oh, and have a look at /var/log/messages, /var/log/warn and /var/log/Xorg.*.log to see what went wrong. ;) Cheers, Leen
Hi Martin, You replied to me privately instead of to the list. Better reply to the list, as there might be others (either now or in the future) who are interested in the solution. ;) I hope you do not mind that I replied to the list instead of replying to you. On Thursday 03 March 2005 00:01, Martin wrote:
Leendert Meyer wrote:
I hope you have an ssh server running on that file server. If so, you can login on that box in text-mode with:
ssh root@host_name
Aha! oepn sesame...
Yup. :)
If you can't use a Linux box, use putty instead. That's an ssh client that runs on windows (google for putty+windows).
Aha again.. I was about to ask :)
Oh, and have a look at /var/log/messages, /var/log/warn and /var/log/Xorg.*.log to see what went wrong. ;)
Xserver died during startup... (kdm[9112]) It says...
Anything in /var/log/kdm.log? (forgot about that one... ;) BTW, do you need to have X running on the file server?
BTW: Patrick on 81.2.197.43- I have now disabled the port...
Better stealth all ports, open those ports you *need* to be open, and only close port 113 (ident). And don't tell others what you did. If they have some grey matter working, they already know before they read this mail. And if not, then you don't have to worry. ;P Cheers, Leen
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