samba - Nov 2003 - Unable to add SMB accounts

I get the following errors on attempting to add smb accounts:

[root@corryard root]# smbpasswd -a sean
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
pdb_getsampwnam: Unable to open TDB passwd (/etc/samba/passdb.tdb)!
Failed initialise SAM_ACCOUNT for user sean.
Failed to modify password entry for user sean
[root@corryard root]#

The passdb.tdb file is there.....

K.

Hi there,

On which Samba Version?

After Samba3 you should try to: net rpc user add...... (see man pages
for net) 
http://de.samba.org/samba/docs/man/net.8.html

Sorry, it's a long time ago since I created my few users.

Hendrik

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Betreff: [Samba] Unable to add SMB accounts


I get the following errors on attempting to add smb accounts:

[root@corryard root]# smbpasswd -a sean
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
pdb_getsampwnam: Unable to open TDB passwd (/etc/samba/passdb.tdb)!
Failed initialise SAM_ACCOUNT for user sean. Failed to modify password
entry for user sean [root@corryard root]#

The passdb.tdb file is there.....

K.

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