samba - Jan 2002 - LDAP-Howto/smbpasswd errors

I'm following the Samba-LDAP HOWTO at idealx.org through and I have come up
to a problem. I added their default LDIF and ran smbpasswd -w <password>
to
set up the LDAP password. I attempted to add my administrator account, using

smbldap-useradd.pl -a -m -g 200 administrator

which worked, and I then tried to give it a password, using

smbldap-passwd.pl administrator

Once I had entered the password twice it said:

Failed to find entry for user root.
Failed to modify password entry for user root

However, I then attempted to log into my linux box with the administrator
account and it worked, but it said this:

Last login: Tue Jan 29 on tty2
[: too many arguments
[administrator@localhost administrator]$

If I add users simply with smbldap-useradd.pl <user> I have no problems.

Any ideas what might be causing this? I'm using Samba 2.2.2 and Openldap
2.0.21

Many thanks,

Phil.


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I am receiving this error on 2 of my shares now.  Can anyone please help me
out with what it means.  I have a lot of other samba shares that are working
fine.  This share is in my home directory, but the unix permissions on it
are 770 for the group.  I am not having a problem with it, but the other
person in the group is getting this error in the log.  The strange part also
is that the other person can read and write to the directory.

Here is the conf:

[Wedding]
   comment = Wedding
   path = /home/mweber/MyFiles/Wedding
   public = yes
   writable = yes


Thanks in advance for your help.

Michael