On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 11:58 -0500, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote:
Hi there --
Thanks for your reply. The output of the testparm command is shown below:
Load smb config files from /etc/samba/smb.conf Processing section "[homes]" Processing section "[printers]" Processing section "[roinventory]" Loaded services file OK. Server role: ROLE_STANDALONE passdb backend = tdbsam
The smbpasswd command is available for backwards compatibility. At the risk of coming across as a complete idiot, how does that tie in to this situation?
---- you can read about the different types of passdb's here in Samba's Official HowTo
http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/passdb.html#id259...
I would recommend using tdbsam as you are doing and you can simply check the contents of this file by typing 'tdbdump /etc/samba/passdb.tdb'
tdb stands for 'trivial database' and it actually allows you to use more of the pdb features like setting some policies for users.
The usage of 'passdb = smbpasswd' is the old / flatfile database and all it really permits is a username and password.
Craig