tempestuous
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Posted: Aug. 14 2005,14:03 |
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The smbpasswd utility, /usr/bin/smbpasswd, is trying to write to the Samba password database file (which confusingly is also called "smbpasswd") at /etc/samba/smbpasswd, and fails. I see no obvious reason and solution.
Maybe you could try another Linux distribution, or a different version of Samba. The quickest way to achieve this would be to install the dpkg.dsl package, then install Samba from deb files from http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/samba-common and http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/samba
Yes, Knoppix works out-of-the-box, but Samba configuration should be exactly the same.
Knoppix and DSL are related, but they're very different. Knoppix is a full-featured distribution with almost every application you could want, but it's a full 3GB when installed to hard drive and its default KDE window manager makes it slow on older computers. It works better when its window manager is changed to Xfce or IceWM or Fluxbox. I use Knoppix as a development environment for DSL.
DSL is small, fast, and can be quickly set up on different computers.
If you're only concerned with a single, permanent installation you might consider a "middleweight" distribution like Mepis (Debian-based) or Vector (Slackware-based).
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