Kent West wrote:
In my searching for an answer, I discovered the pbdedit tool. I have not been able to discover if this is soon to be a replacement for smbpasswd, or if it just does some of the same things. If it just does some of the same things, which tool do I want to use?
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It seems the two tools do not synchronize with each other. Can anyone give me a third-grader's explanation of where to go from here? Which tool to use; which tool does what; are the tools supposed to both modify both databases or not; how to get my user so she can map a drive as her preferred username?
After some testing, I've come to the conclusion that the smbpasswd utility does not affect the /etc/samba/smbpasswd file, but does affect the same database used by the pdbedit utility.
So, I've completely removed the /etc/samba/smbpasswd file; this may result in some "issues", but so far, it looks like perhaps this file has been deprecated. Now I'll go see if I can find any actual documentation to this effect.
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