Re: [webmin-l] Samba issue..

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 16:03, WipeOut wrote:
> Jamie Cameron wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >This problem was recently reported to me by another user.
> >It seems that on Fedora, the 'pdbedit' command which Webmin attempts to
> >use to manage Samba users does not actually work. To fix the problem, go
> >to the Samba module, click on Module Config and change the 'Full path to
> >pdbedit' to 'None'.
> >
> > - Jamie
> >
> >
> Thanks Jamie.. That has fixed it..
> 
> What does pdbedit do exactly?

It is supposed to connect to add, update and delete Samba users in the
appropriate back-end database used by the Samba server. In the old days,
all users were stored in a text file like /etc/samba/smbpasswd, which
Webmin could edit directly. In version 3.0 however, other user databases
like LDAP can be used, which the pdbedit command understands.

Unfortunately, in this case the pdbedit program doesn't seem to be
actually working for some reason .. so you have to configure Webmin to
fall back to directly editing the smbpasswd file.

 - Jamie