smbpasswd impotence

[animal1881]

I set up a samba 3.0.2 server on animal. Everything else works just fine and the server is visible to all windows computers. The problem is I cannot add eligible usernames using smbpasswd. I log in as root and try

smbpasswd -a animal1881 qwer

and it says password changed for animal1881, but when I try to log in nothing happens. I check in

/usr/local/samba/private/smbpasswd

and I see smbpasswd is 0 bytes. It seems the smbpasswd command is talking but not doing HELP!!

 

[member 141630]

Have you added a Unix account first? You will require a valid unix account of the same name before you can add a Samba login...

 

[stanhubble]

If the unix account exists ( or there is mapped one in smbusers ) then you might need to "enable" the user.

smbpasswd -e animal1881