[Gllug] samba problem

will will at hellacool.co.uk
Thu Aug 22 17:02:42 UTC 2002


Stig Brautaset wrote:
> * Will <will at hellacool.co.uk> spake thus:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I have a couple of users I am sure I added using the smbpasswd -a command, 
>>will and user1.  The user 'will' works fine (all tested from win2k) however 
>>the 'user1' user does not work, it keeps prompting for the password.  The 
>>only difference I can see is the smbpasswd file entries:
> 
> 
> I can spot one more difference...
> 
> 
>>will:1000:encrypted password snipped:encrypted password snipped:[U 
>>]:LCT-3D616ED7:will
> 
>                  ^^^^
>>user1:1004:encrypted password snipped:encrypted password snipped:[UX 
>>]:LCT-3D64EBCE:
> 
>                  ^^^^^ missing `user1'.
> 
> Although I have no idea whether it is relevant or not.

Yeah, I noticed that after I sent it but I think it is a comment field, other 
users have things like:

Post Office Owner
Unprivileged user
Mister Man Pages
Owner of many system processes

And stuff like that.

Will.


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