[Klug-general] Baffled again - samba networking

George Prowse george.prowse at gmail.com
Tue Jul 27 17:16:39 UTC 2010


> That seemed a quick answer to the problem so I have just entered
> smbpasswd -a mick and got the answer command not found. So I thought I
> needed to enter it as sudo smbpasswd -a username. Same result.
> So I thought maybe the samba server wasn't installed. I checked Synaptic
> and it said samba was loaded but above it was samba4 which said it was a
> server and was not installed. So I installed it.
> Same result.
>
> Any ideas why entering smbpasswd -a username don't work?
>
> Still baffled but a little wiser. Thanks.
>
> MikeR

Ubuntu derived distros don't have the full samba package so anything 
server related (rather than client) wont work



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