Horrible problem with SAMBA -- Does Karmic work?

[Tom H]

Pete Clapham wrote:

> I have done a clean install of Karmic on my file server and am tearing my
> hair out.  I'm almost ready to bolt for Red Hat!

> I have tried numerous times to set up SAMBA so that students can log into
> the system and access the files they need to access.  They can't.  The
> latest error is that the machine account isn't set up.  But I can't find
> where the machine account is.  When I upgraded from Jaunty (which worked
> fine), I got this error and was unable to delete the machine password from
> the /etc/samba/smbpasswd file to reload it.  Now there isn't an
> /etc/samba/smbpasswd file at all, so the accounts must be stored elsewhere.
> Any ideas?  Students can log in directly to the server or via ssh.  The
> problem is samba, and it appears to be the machine accounts.

The default for both Jaunty and Karmic is for Samba's smbpasswd to use
/var/lib/samba/passdb.tdb and /var/lib/samba/secrets.tdb (I assume
that you upgraded "in place" to Jaunty if you were using
/etc/samba/smbpasswd on Jaunty).