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? If you really want to use smbpasswd backend, just change passdb backend = smbpasswd (in /etc/samba/smb.conf) and go with smbpasswd .. -- Eero