Sharing Only Accounts don't show in Users & Groups

Hi,
I've done a fresh install of Maverick yesterday.
And I created a "Sharing Only" account so I can access my iMac from another PC (so it doesn't show up at logon time)
When I went back in Users and Groups this morning, my newly "Sharing Only" account had gone.
So I thought I'd forgotten it and tried to create it again: to my surprise at creation time, Mac OS reports: "Name is used by another user", when in fact it's not listed in the left sidebar (I can only see my accout and the guest account)
I tried the same with a "Standard user" and all is fine.
I tried with a second "Sharing Only" account and it disappeared too (after a logoff)
I've found this article: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4404 but I don't wanna screw up my fresh install
Can anyone help?

here also the same ... totally fresh out of the box Mac Mini with update to 10.9.2 ... create a share only user called "conf_share", add this user to a existing share ... go back to the User & Groups and paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh it's disappear (but still existing of course)
I found this "hint" but this is only usefull if you want to delete this user without going crazy... this hint will convert the sharing only user to a standard user
Just type the following two commands in terminal:
Quit and reopen System preferences and the sharing account will show up:
sudo dscl . create /Users/root GeneratedUID FFFFEEEE-DDDD-CCCC-BBBB-AAAA00000000
and then:
sudo dscl . create /Users/accountname UserShell /bin/bash
Replace "accountname" in the commands above with the missing account name.

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