On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 11:45 -0500, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: > Hi there -- > > I am having an issue with the Samba package, release 3.033375, that > came bundled with the > CentOS 5.3 distribution. It seems that even though I created the > smbpasswd file, located at > the /etc/samba directory, I am unable to modify the password of the > users listed in it. > > I can run the /usr/bin/smbpasswd -a <username> command as root, and > even though there > are no errors, a subsequent check of the smbpasswd file indicates the > username in question > is still listed with the series of X's and NO PASSWORD indicator. > > I have confirmed through the find command the only instances of > smbpasswd are those at the > /etc/samba and /usr/bin locations. > > Has anyone seen this issue, and aside from installing samba from > source, have a solution to > this problem? Thanks. ---- are you sure that is the file being used? what is output of the command... testparm -s |grep passdb Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.