From: "Kaplan, Andrew H." <AHKAPLAN at PARTNERS.ORG> >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. I have "smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd" in my smb.conf... JD