Two questions. First, does debian use a different version of adduser than other Unices/Linux distributions? I'm trying to set up samba as a PDC. The HOWTO at
http://bioserve.latrobe.edu.au/samba/adding.html says to add a user for a machine using the following command: adduser g machines c NTMachine d /dev/null s /bin/false n bc-06$ adduser on my box does not support those switches. useradd seems to support most of them. Second, I added an account for the machine using useradd. The name is present in both /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. However, when I issue the command smbpasswd -a -m name I'm told that "User name does not exist in system password file ..." The name certainly does exist in both passwd and shadow.
