Re: [Hampshire] smbpasswd & "difficult" names

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Author: Keith Edmunds
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To: hampshire
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] smbpasswd & "difficult" names
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 01:36:41 +0100 (BST), lug@??? said:

> smbpasswd doesn't seem to
> want to accept spaces within the Windows part of the username pair
> (however I quote it), so that authentication is guaranteed to fail


I have a customer in just that situation. I had no problems with

useradd -m "Fred Bloggs" && smbpasswd -a "Fred Bloggs"

What a) have you tried and b) problem do you see?

Keith

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