[NTLUG:Discuss] smbpasswd not working

[Dennis Rice]

I am back to teaching Linux and have run into a problem with smbpasswd.  
I attempted to make it work on both FC11 and FC12, but it does not 
create an encrypted password for a user.  The user exists in the Linux 
passwd file.  When I issue the "smbpasswd prof" command, then enter the 
password twice, and then go back to check the smbpasswd file 
(/etc/samba), the change has not been made.  I issued the command on my 
old FC6 system and it worked correctly.

I also attempted to use the GUI administrative mode, but it too did not 
change the password.  Not sure why, but swat also did not work (httpd is 
on, did a service restart, created the swat xinetd.d swat file, and ran 
xinetd; can bring up a simple test web page to test httpd).

Would appreciate any thoughts.

Dennis