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I was trying to add a new user today to my suse linux 7.3 box. got the user added to linux box an also to samba, then go an try to setup password for the new user an it want let me run smbpasswd. says its not a command or filename. I'm running it as root. All was working fine a couple weeks ago when I had to add a new person. can anyone sugguest what maybe could be the problem. thanks jack malone
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Hi, On Wednesday 04 September 2002 21:02, you wrote:
I was trying to add a new user today to my suse linux 7.3 box. got the user added to linux box an also to samba, then go an try to setup password for the new user an it want let me run smbpasswd. says its not a command or filename. I'm running it as root. All was working fine a couple weeks ago when I had to add a new person. can anyone sugguest what maybe could be the problem.
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jack malone
On my system it's /usr/bin/smbpasswd - is that file there, and is /usr/bin still in your path? Should be, or I expect you'd have noticed something by now. Has the file somehow lost its executable flag? Perms here are 755 and it's owned by root:root. HTH Fergus
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