Horrible problem with SAMBA -- Does Karmic work?

[Pete Clapham]

Pete Clapham wrote:
> Hi, all --
>
> 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.

Thanks to the two who responded to this email.  However, this still 
leaves the question open as to whether I need to establish accounts for 
both users and workstations; I assume I do.  The TDBs seem to record the 
users correctly, but they do not appear to record the workstations.  The 
way I've been doing this is, first, "useradd -M -N -s /bin/false 
<machinename$>", then "passwd -l <machinename$>", then "smbpasswd -a -m 
<machinename>".  I get the message that users are added with the final 
statement (or deleted with smbpasswd -x -m <machinename>), but then I 
get the message that the workstation accounts aren't established when I 
try to log in on them.  I suspect that the smbpasswd program is trying 
to write something to somewhere, but it's the tbd files that are 
actually controlling things.  Do I use pdbedit for this, as I do with 
the users?
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