Media Server Problem

[Black Mage]

I am currently trying to set up a media server in Ubuntu and I've used the following tutorial:

http://rubbervir.us/projects/ubuntu_media_server/

Everything works fine except at the end when I try to add users using



root@dixon-server:/home/administrator# smbpasswd -a system_username
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Failed to modify password entry for user system_username


I can see the my folder in the directory but I just can't log into it and I can't modify the users. Can anyone help me?

[tbroderick]

Try putting single quotes around 'username'.

[n3tfury]

system_username = "network username"

^

[Black Mage]

No, it still doesn't work.

[n3tfury]

without the quotes?

[Black Mage]

Yea, I've tried no qoutes, single qoutes, and double qoutes and they all fail for some reason.

[n3tfury]

so you've done this, but with your USERname?


root@dixon-server:/home/administrator# smbpasswd -a n3tfury
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
Failed to modify password entry for user n3tfury

[Black Mage]

Ok, I did



root@ dixon-server:/home/administrator# smbpasswd -a Administrator
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
root@dixon-server:/home/administrator#



And that worked. How about adding other users besides the Administator? How can I do this?

[n3tfury]

sorry, man, i'm not sure. it looks like you can only add users that have an account on that box, so create other users in users and groups?