add samba user (Samba 3.0.2)

geodo · 12-02-2004, 05:35 AM

Hi!

I hope I'm in the right forum. As I'm still quite new to the world of Linux I always find it a bit hard to find out... If I'm at the wrong place I want to apologise!

I' running a SuSE9.0 machine with Samba 3.0.2a as a PDC. A few days ago I added some Samba users with "smbpasswd -a username password" and that was all working fine.
Now the smbpasswd command isn't found anymore. A colleague of mine had the idea that the reason for that might be some updates I have done (automatically via Yast Online Update - so I don't really now what I have updated...). He said that the command smbpasswd shall be displaced by the command net.

So my questions are: how can I add samba users?
a) could it be, that smbpasswd is not working anymore as it is displaced by the net command?
if not, how can I get the smbpasswd command going again?
or if a) is true:
b) how do you use the net command? (I looked at the man page, but somehow can't find out how to do it - seem not to be experienced or clever enough - Sorry!)

Thanx a buch!!

bathory · 12-02-2004, 05:49 AM

Try:

Code:

locate smbpasswd

to find the path to smbpasswd. The fact that it's not running right away is because it's not anymore in your PATH

geodo · 12-02-2004, 07:28 AM

Code:

locate smbpasswd

returned

Code:

locate: /var/lib/locatedb: No such file or directory

???

i installed locate (/usr/bin/locate), but don't konw how to handle that message

bathory · 12-02-2004, 07:47 AM

You must run updatedb regularly for locate to work well. You can also run:

Code:

find / -name smbpasswd

to find the file you want.

geodo · 12-02-2004, 08:15 AM

Sorry, maybe I'm just not getting what you mean.
I'm getting a list (see below) of locations where smbpasswd is, but even changing to that locations and trying to use that command always results in the same message ("command not found")...

/etc/gpm/samba/smbpasswd
/etc/samba/smbpasswd

bathory · 12-02-2004, 08:36 AM

I guess that /etc/samba/smbpasswd is the file where samba stores it's passwords. The other one I don't know what it is since I don't use Suse. But you can give it a try entering /etc/gpm/samba/ and typing ./smbpasswd (as root).
If that does not work I'm afraid you must use Yast to reinstall samba