I hope this is not too wide a posting. I appear to have a user that cannot be removed from the data base. See below. I fixed it after erasing the database but it appears to be a bug. I am not sure how to post bugs Steve root at Sunretro:/etc/samba# smbpasswd -a srb New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: Unable to modify TDB passwd: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL! Failed to add entry for user srb. root at Sunretro:/etc/samba# pdbedit -Lv --------------- Unix username: srb NT username: Account Flags: [U ] User SID: S-1-5-21-978477888-3196194869-3012588170-501 Primary Group SID: S-1-5-21-978477888-3196194869-3012588170-513 Full Name: srb Home Directory: HomeDir Drive: (null) Logon Script: Profile Path: Domain: SUNRETRO Account desc: Workstations: Munged dial: Logon time: 0 Logoff time: never Kickoff time: never Password last set: 0 Password can change: 0 Password must change: 0 Last bad password : 0 Bad password count : 0 Logon hours : FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF --------------- Unix username: fsclient NT username: Account Flags: [U ] User SID: S-1-5-21-978477888-3196194869-3012588170-1001 Primary Group SID: S-1-5-21-978477888-3196194869-3012588170-513 Full Name: fsclient,,,, Home Directory: \\sunretro\fsclient HomeDir Drive: Logon Script: Profile Path: \\sunretro\fsclient\profile Domain: SUNRETRO Account desc: Workstations: Munged dial: Logon time: 0 Logoff time: never Kickoff time: never Password last set: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:26:19 PST Password can change: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:26:19 PST Password must change: never Last bad password : 0 Bad password count : 0 Logon hours : FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF root at Sunretro:/etc/samba# pdbedit -x srb user srb does not exist in the passdb root at Sunretro:/etc/samba#