Samba question.

[splooge]

This doesn't seem right to me.

I've got a freshly emerged system on which I want to install Samba on. I have some concerns because when I do a emerge -p samba it shows it's gonna compile all this:

jpeg, libpng, opengl-update, xfree, ExtUtils-MakeMaker, Parse-RecDescent, audiofile, esound, ORBit, popt, intltool, gtk+, giflib, tiff, imlib, gnome-libs, XML-Parser, gdk-pixbuf, XML-Writer, gtk-perl, ExtUtils-F77, PDL, mpeg, gimp. gimp-print, ghostscript, cups

And then finally, samba.

What's with all the dependencies? I checked the ebuild but was unable figure out how exactly it determined it needed all that. I mean, I really don't want to install xfree on this box. =p

Thanks

[Eagle-Eye]

[splooge]

Actually I wanted cups.

I put -X -gtk for the use variables, shortened it down to:
ghostscript
jpeg
lpbpng
tiff
cups
samba

Since I didn't want Xfree now, I still wanted the stuff compiled with X support, so I put them back in the use flags area and emerged each of the above packages using --nodeps. I hope that worked right.

My other question, which I haven't searched for yet:

root@bc xinetd.d # smbpasswd cstevens
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
unable to open passdb database.
Failed to find entry for user cstevens.
Failed to modify password entry for user cstevens
root@bc xinetd.d #

Any idea what that's all about? =/

[petu]

Use smbpasswd with -a flag. It tells that you want to add a samba user not update an existing account.