Tried your suggestions but same problems on LRP. Trying the 2.2.8 smbpasswd on my SuSE box worked fine. Go figure.
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Spiro Philopoulos wrote: > > > Thanks for responding. I've appended my smb.conf and smbpasswd files. > > Ok. So are smb1 ... smbn all in your /etc/passwd file? > Why do all have the same uid? The nobody uid. Do NOT do this. > > You need to have separate uids for each entry in smbpasswd. You should add > your Unix users by: > useradd 'username' > passwd 'username' > then to smbpasswd by: > smbpasswd -a 'username' > > Do NOT put a guest account in smbpasswd. Samba should use the 'nobody' > account from /etc/passwd for all connections to the IPC$ share. > > - John T. > > > > > > > > On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, Spiro Philopoulos wrote: > > > > > > > I'm trying the latest versions of Samba on a LRP box (kernel 2.2.19), > > namely > > > > versions 2.2.7a and 2.2.8, but whenever I try to access a share it fails > > and > > > > the smbd log has the following error message: > > > > > > > > build_sam_account: smbpasswd database is corrupt! username smb1 not in > > > > unix passwd database! > > > > > > Email me your smb.conf and smbpasswd file please to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - NOT > > > to this list. > > > > > > > > > > > I have the user accounts defined in the smbpasswd file and in /etc/passwd. > > > > When using an older version (2.0.4b) I have no problems at all. Also, when > > > > trying to change a Samba password using smbpasswd I get a similar error > > message: > > > > > > > > build_sam_account: smbpasswd database is corrupt! username smb1 not in > > unix > > > > passwd database! > > > > Failed to find entry for user smb1. > > > > Failed to modify password entry for user smb1 > > > > > > > > I configured it during the build to use the traditional smbpasswd file. > > Does > > > > anybody know what this is?. > > > > Another issue is that nmbd won't start up if I have "interfaces = all" > > > > > > If you want all interfaces (even if it is just one) comment out this line. > > > ie: Comment out "interfaces =" > > > > > > > specified in the global section of smb.conf, which again wasn't a problem > > with > > > > the older version. > > > > > > > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > > > > > > > > > - John T. > > > -- > > > John H Terpstra > > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > John H Terpstra > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
