Why does smbpasswd not work for some users?

[Bob Latham]

On 29 Aug, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

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> > Processing section "[sg2]" Loaded services file OK. 
> > Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE passdb backend = tdbsam

> ---- that last line, 'passdb backend = tdbsam' means that you aren't
> using smbpasswd for your data store for users which is a good thing
> since tdbsam is more substantial than a flat file. 

Excellent. Some good news at last.

> Users / passwords are stored in
> /var/lib/samba/private/passdb.tdb|secrets.tdb

> You might want to up the debugging level to find out if/why it's failing
> then try that.

Sounds like a good suggestion, I'll get to google and find out how to do
that, (says he thinking 'I bet that will take some finding').

Thanks Craig.

Cheers,

Bob.