Samba machine account

[therealtalkinggoat]

i seem to be having trouble creating a machine account using smbpasswd -am beta it tells me "failed to initialise SAM_ACCOUNT for user beta$" and "failed to modify password entry for beta$" what is going on?

 

[thedribz]

try:

smbpasswd -a -m beta

if that does not work:

passwd -l beta$

then the line above, and if that fails you, you need to add the machine to the users list:

/usr/sbin/useradd -g machines -d /dev/null -c beta -s /bin/false beta$

this will only work if the machines group has been created.

Give it a go, the worse that could happen is you may need to re-install linux.