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Subject: RE: Samba refuses to login into home directory
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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


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