Oh. Does that mean that Samba looks in passdb.tdb first then falls back to passwd/shadow?On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 10:25 +0100, Kevin Thorpe wrote:[root@database samba]# smbpasswd kevin New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: Failed to find entry for user kevin. Failed to modify password entry for user kevin Yet I can still connect to the shares as kevin..... strange--- And replying to you again if the user "kevin" is a System User You will still be able to connect to the share.