RE: [TCLUG:9768] samba problems

["Eric Hillman" <ehillman@cccu.com>]

> >Does the machine have the file /etc/MACHINE.SID? The box I'm on currently
> >does not have anything relating to samba installed, but if memory serves,
> >root has to run 'smbpasswd' or maybe one of the other utils to generate
> >this file.
>
> yes there is. thanks for the thought tho. :)
>
> #file /etc/MACHINE.SID
> /etc/MACHINE.SID: gzip compressed data, deflated, last modified:
> Thu Sep 23
> 07:38:08 1999, os: Unix


Actually, maybe that is your problem...  Although maybe "file" is just
confused.  On my system, 'file /etc/MACHINE.SID' returns:

/etc/MACHINE.SID: ASCII text

And the contents of the file look something like:

S-1-5-21-428541845-317371003-2878726185