Can't modify smbpasswd

[WarKirby]

Hello folks.
Smbpasswd has mysteriously stopped working. I think I know why. It's happened while I was testing a script to delete users, which runs "userdel -r $username" and then "smbpasswd -x $username"

Attempting to use smbpasswd fails, like so:

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roshniserver:/home/ali# smbpasswd -a naveed
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Unable to modify TDB passwd: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL!
Failed to add entry for user naveed.
Failed to modify password entry for user naveed

the user definitely already exists and has a password set in unix.
I am logged in as root while doing it.
I've tried restarting samba several times.

This seems to be a similar problem: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=529735

but no solution is provided. Any ideas ?

Edit: I also found this which seems very similar too, and again nobody helped him
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions ... dc-666884/

[smallchange]

It looks like the user already exists and has a password in samba also.

[WarKirby]

the user does not already exist in samba, i've never used this username until yesterday, as a test.
i get a similar error trying to remove any user

[smallchange]

It might be permissions on passdb.tdb in /var/lib/samba/. In my case it is
-rw------- 1 root root 36K Aug 19 11:23 passdb.tdb

[WarKirby]

The permissions of mine are identical to yours.

I think this issue may be a corruption of the passdb.tdb (thank you for telling me where it is!) due to using unix password sync while deleting users from unix and samba

I've resolved it by deleting passdb and recreating the lost accounts.

[peterRB]

Just to confirm: I just had a similar but even more innocent problem, and solved it by deleting /var/lib/samba/passdb.tdb.

My problem was simply that I could not create the very first user/password using smbpasswd, in a new kubuntu 10.04 installation. Doing sudo smbpasswd -a smbguest failed with the same message:

Unable to modify TDB passwd: NT_STATUS_UNSUCCESSFUL!

User smbguest did properly exist in /etc/passwd, but smbpasswd -a would not work.

At WarKirby's suggestion, I deleted passdb.tdb. Result: sudo smbpasswd -a smbguest then worked fine, and passdb.tdb was recreated at full size in /usr/lib/samba.

Looks like something about that tdb file is corrupt upon installation (of kubuntu 10.04).

[aldasegu]

I had the same problem. I could add new user with:

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pdbedit -a -u username