From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 Description of problem: After adding a user, his name goes to smbusers but is neither added to smbpasswd nor becomes visible in the dialog box. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.2.9-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Try add any username in the dialog box. 2. 3. Actual Results: nothing visible, but the username entered is stored in smbusers and cannot be re-entered again. smbpasswd is neither created nor updated. Expected Results: username written to smbpasswd and visible in the dialog box. Additional info: Output dumped to the terminal: [root@chaos samba]# system-config-samba [HERE I ENTER THE USERNAME] When run by root: smbpasswd [options] [username] otherwise: smbpasswd [options] options: -L local mode (must be first option) -h print this usage message -s use stdin for password prompt -c smb.conf file Use the given path to the smb.conf file -D LEVEL debug level -r MACHINE remote machine -U USER remote username extra options when run by root or in local mode: -a add user -d disable user -e enable user -i interdomain trust account -m machine trust account -n set no password -w PASSWORD ldap admin password -x delete user -R ORDER name resolve order
i'm experiencing this bug exactly as described above. samba-3.0.3-5 system-config-samba-1.2.9-2
Should be fixed in system-config-samba-1.2.15 which should hit updates-testing shortly.