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#id2592512 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 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.