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
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. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
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