I recently upgraded our file server’s version of Samba to 3.5.x. I was running a much older version (I think 3.3.x). Anyways, this upgrade forced a regeneration of Samba passwords. The FreeBSD handbook shows the use of  smbpasswd… but notes the new way to generate passwords using pdbedit. to solve my problem, I moved the Read more about Upgrading Samba[…]