Userguide not working for me

[NoOp]

On 07/27/2007 02:07 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> Hi All,
> This dummy still having issues with  Unofficial Ubuntu
> 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) Starter Guide at
> http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty#How_to_add.2Fedit.2Fdelete_system_users
> Following instructions as suggested, adding commands
> literally as suggested, but they are not working as
> follows:(Note: this on samba server part)
> 
> 
> lchata at ubuntu:~$ sudo smbpasswd -a system_username

This would be:
sudo smbpasswd -a lchata

That is all that you should need to do & it should work - lchata is the
system_username,
ubuntu is the user.

> New SMB password:
> Retype new SMB password:
> Failed to modify password entry for user
> system_username
> lchata at ubuntu:~$ sudo useradd lchata
> useradd: user lchata exists
> lchata at ubuntu:~$ sudo smbpasswd -a system_username
> New SMB password:
> Retype new SMB password:
> Failed to modify password entry for user
> system_username
> lchata at ubuntu:~$  

Give that a try and then we'll move on from there.

Gary