Also, how do I reset my SMB password?
He/she can change his/her samba password by running the command "smbpasswd" at a command prompt on the server. Note this is not run with sudo. It will prompt once for the previous samba password and twice for the new one.
Additionally, what is Smbpasswd used for? smbpasswd is the Samba encrypted password file. It contains the username, Unix user id and the SMB hashed passwords of the user, as well as account flag information and the time the password was last changed. This file format has been evolving with Samba and has had several different formats in the past.
One may also ask, where are SMB passwords stored?
Samba stores its encrypted passwords in a file called smbpasswd, which by default resides in the /usr/local/samba/private directory. The smbpasswd file should be guarded as closely as the passwd file; it should be placed in a directory to which only the root user has read/write access.
What is a Windows SMB account?
Stands for "Server Message Block." SMB is a network protocol used by Windows-based computers that allows systems within the same network to share files. Though SMB was originally developed for Windows, it can also be used by other platforms, including Unix and Mac OS X, using a software implementation called Samba.
