Once upon a time Manuel Bouyersaid:

> Well, no, as you can't decrypt the unix passwd.
> I've made a small suid C program which asks the user it's unix passwd
> (I got this part from the NetBSD passwd program) and then call
> smbpasswd -a to add its login to the smbpasswd database, prompting for
> a passwd. So each user can add itself to the smbpasswd database.
> Unfortunably I've lost the sources in an OS upgrade :(

oh bummer

I found some stuff on caldera's website.
http://www.caldera.com/products/server/techsupp/samba.techsupp.html#users

It says webmin can convert the unix passwords.  I'm going to try that...
Thanks for the help :)