samba domain controller - ubuntu

[eoij1]

Hi,

I have been following the HOWTO on setting up a SAMBA primary domain controller for Ubuntu on the howtoforge.com site and I am having a little trouble. I searched the forums and found somebody that had similar trouble and they said they resolved it, but I am unsure how. I am on page 5 of the tutorial where you type smbpasswd -a tom and after I enter the password for user tom i get this error:

tdb_update_sam: failing to store a SAM_ACCOUNT for [tom] without a primary group RID
Failed to add entry for user tom.
Failed to modify password entry for user tom.

I came across this page on the forums with similar trouble, http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/sho...ain+controller
but I dont know what the fix is for it. If anybody can shed some light on how or what I might be doing wrong I would really appreciate it.

Thanks

[till]

You will have to change the domain in smb.conf to be the same then the hostname that you entered during the Ubuntu setup. Then restart samba.

[yohann]

hello

i've the same problem, so i did change the net-bios name in smb.conf to have the same as in /etc/hostname
but i still have the problem, what can i do?

PS: thank you for the help, and sorry about my bad english

EDIT: it looks likie it come from the command useradd -m -G tom because if if create the new user from the ubuntu graphical interface, it works fine

[falko]

Originally Posted by yohann

EDIT: it looks likie it come from the command useradd -m -G tom because if if create the new user from the ubuntu graphical interface, it works fine

Do you see any differences in /etc/passwd for a new user when you create it from the shell and from the gui?