I am having problems adding a user. Here is some background: OK this is my
first attempt to build a Samba server so be gentle.
Operating System: Fedora Core 3
Samba version: 3.0.10-1.fc3
I have set up a Stand-alone server to support my 4 client machines (all
WinXP boxes w/o a domain). I had some difficulties getting things to work
and eventually traced them down to a Firestarter (1.0.0) and I had to turn
"block broadcasts" off.
Up to now I'd been playing with two user accounts.
Linux user pst = Win user Paul
Linux user ljk = Win user Lisa
I've added and deleted these accounts a number of times (both the Samba
accounts and the Fedora accounts). After I turned broadcasts off I got Paul
working fine. But when I tried to get Lisa working this is what happens:
Applications => System Settings => Server Settings => Samba
From the Samba GUI I selected: Preferences => Samba Users
From the "Samba Users" window I select Add Users
And enter:
Unix Username: ljk (from drop down menu)
Windows Username: lisa
Samba Password: Supersecret
Confirm Samba Password: Supersercret
I get the following error message:
! An Account for this user already exists. Please try again.
Now neither ljk nor lisa is listed on the Samba Users window, and there is a
user account ljk on Fedora.
So I tried to delete ljk as follows:
[root@localhost pst]# smbpasswd -x ljk
Deleted user ljk.
[root@localhost pst]# smbpasswd -x lisa
Failed to initialise SAM_ACCOUNT for user lisa. Does this user exist in the
UNIX password database ?
Failed to modify password entry for user lisa [root@localhost pst]#
What worries me is if I enter try and delete ljk again, expecting an error
message saying the user doesn't exist I get:
[root@localhost pst]# smbpasswd -x ljk
Deleted user ljk.
[root@localhost pst]# smbpasswd -x ljk
Deleted user ljk.
This is not what I expected. If I go back to the Samba GUI and try and add
ljk I get the same results as I showed at the start of this message.
Since then I have added two other users successfully. So what am I doing
wrong with Lisa?
Paul
