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Kevin Stedman wrote:
| I am using Samba on Solaris 8. It is Samba version
| 3.0.10. I am trying to add a user as root using
| smbpasswd -a name. I am receiving this error message
| after typing in the passwords:
|
| "NULL guest account!?!?
| Failed to initialise SAM_ACCOUNT for user name. Does
| this user exist in the UNIX password database?
| Failed to modify password entry for user name"
|
| Yes the user is in the UNIX password database. I have
| looked at the configurations and do not see anything
| wrong. I do have a Samba version 2.2.8 running on
| another machine and working just fine. I tried to
| match the conf between the two.
This was a change from 2.2 to 3.0.
It's asking about the 'guest account' user, not
the one you are adding. `testparm -v -s smb.conf | grep guest`
cheers, jerry
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