Hi,

I installed Fedora 10 Friday. I installed it on my home server / router. This machine acts as the samba logon domain server. I need to set the samba root password to allow me to have the other Win XP machines join the domain. I have not had issues with this before, simply typing

smb -a

did the trick.

Now I get

Unable to modify TDB passwd: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL!
Failed to add entry for user root.
Failed to modify password entry for user root

I am doing this via su as logon as root is now disabled.

Machines can browse the samba network and get access by username password for that user but if I am to have machines added to the domain and a central logon server I will need the smb root user.

I have used the default smb.conf altered for my network address and server shares and bits.

Any pointers would be appreciated. I'm guessing it's a Fedora 10 security matter.

Regards
Rob

The smb.conf use tdbsam for password user data base. I changed these settings to old style /etc/samba/passwd file and usermap I can now active samba root. I will be trying out the domain membership issues tonight but with root active I don't see a problem.

Would like to know why the default did not work though ?