Where is smbpasswd ubuntu

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Improve this question. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. How do I start Samba? Install samba with the following command: sudo apt-get install samba smbfs. Set your workgroup if necesary. Set your share folders. Restart samba. How do I create a Samba user? Step 2: Add a user to samba. Step 3: Add a user to a Samba share. Step 4: Restart the samba. This option can be used to specify the path and file name of the smb.

This option specifies that the username following should be deleted from the local smbpasswd file. This option specifies that the username following should be disabled in the local smbpasswd file.

This is done by writing a 'D' flag into the account control space in the smbpasswd file. Once this is done all attempts to authenticate via SMB using this username will fail. If the smbpasswd file is in the 'old' format pre-Samba 2. See smbpasswd 5 for details on the 'old' and new password file formats.

This option specifies that the username following should be enabled in the local smbpasswd file, if the account was previously disabled. If the account was not disabled this option has no effect. Once the account is enabled then the user will be able to authenticate via SMB once again. If the smbpasswd file is in the 'old' format, then smbpasswd will FAIL to enable the account.

The default value if this parameter is not specified is zero. The higher this value, the more detail will be logged to the log files about the activities of smbpasswd. At level 0, only critical errors and serious warnings will be logged. Levels above 1 will generate considerable amounts of log data, and should only be used when investigating a problem. Levels above 3 are designed for use only by developers and generate HUGE amounts of log data, most of which is extremely cryptic.

This option specifies that the username following should have their password set to null i. Note that to allow users to logon to a Samba server once the password has been set to "NO PASSWORD" in the smbpasswd file the administrator must set the following parameter in the [global] section of the smb. This option allows a user to specify what machine they wish to change their password on. Without this parameter smbpasswd defaults to the local host. This name is resolved into an IP address using the standard name resolution mechanism in all programs of the Samba suite.

See the -R name resolve order parameter for details on changing this resolving mechanism.