samba password file fails

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I run:

Linux 2.6.27.48-0.3-pae i686
openSUSE 11.1
KDE 3.5.10

When I attempt to determine who’s in the samba database or enter a new member in the file I get the following:

No builtin nor plugin backend for tbdsam found
PANIC (pid 8201): pdb_get_methods_reload: failed to get pdb methods for backend tbdsam

BACKTRACE: 7 stack frames:
#0 pdbedit(log_stack_trace+0x2d) [0xb770c30d]
#1 pdbedit(smb_panic+0x2d) [0xb770c40d]
#2 pdbedit [0xb76969a7]
#3 pdbedit(initialize_password_db+0x24) [0xb7699964]
#4 pdbedit(main+0x175) [0xb766b825]
#5 /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb73c9705]
#6 pdbedit [0xb766a131]
Segmentation fault

Here are the versions of relevant files:
rpm -qa | grep samba
samba-3.2.7-11.8.1
yast2-samba-client-2.17.11-1.30
yast2-samba-server-2.17.9-0.1.2
samba-doc-3.2.7-11.2.1
samba-client-3.2.7-11.8.1
kdebase3-samba-3.5.10-17.5.1,
and also cifs-mount 3.27-11.81

I attempted to upgrade from the software.opensuse.org website with samba-3.60-10.1.i586.rpm. I get a message:
Nothing provides cifs-utils needed by samba-client-3.60-10.1.i586.rpm.

So I could not upgrade.

There are other upgrades on the site but they are not available for some reason.
What is an appropriate upgrade? Is upgrading the solution? If not then what?

2

Try this link

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/network:/samba:/STABLE/openSUSE_11.1/

Add it as a repo in Yast → Software → repositories. And try an upgrade using that.

3

Thanks for the very rapid response. I logged on to report that commenting out the line

passdb backend=tbdsam

in the Swerdna recommended smb.conf removed the problem and allows me to run Samba. I found this suggestion by searching on the web. I can keep on with this truncated smb.conf or update. Is there something provided by the backend besides redundency that would make upgrading desirable?

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You don’t need it. It’s simply mores secure than the default in 11.1, but I always thought the default was pretty good anyway.

Go with the line removed because that works for you.