Re: Samba: Everything working as expected, but log gets spammed.
On (22/05/03 12:19), hansa@tihlde.org wrote:
> I have successfully installed and configured samba on one of my servers,
> running Debian Woody, i386, Samba ver. 2.2.3a (latest from distro).
> Everything is working as it should, all the shares work, with my
> users connecting with unames and passwords from the pw-server in the
> config.
>
> BUT: My syslog is getting constantly spammed with this errormessage
> (cluttering :) , and i haven't been able to find out why:
>
> May 22 09:51:00 gibson smbd[6401]: unable to open passdb database.
> May 22 09:51:00 gibson smbd[6401]: [2003/05/22 09:51:00, 0]
> passdb/pdb_smbpasswd.c:pdb_getsampwnam(1367)
>
> Is the errormessage caused by missing smbpasswd file =
> I'm not using smbpassword file, password server is specified in config.
I'm far from expert but when I installed samba I'm sure I read somwhere that
you need to use smbpasswd. This error would seem to be consistent with
the lack of it.
Regards
Clive
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