<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> 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. </body> </html>