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> From: Peter A. Peterson II [mailto:pedro@flynn.zork.net]
>
> Quoting Harrington, Lee:
> > Would this be for every "linux" account, or every "windows"
> account that I
> > want to access linux?
>
> That's actually an excellent question. I would assume you could create
> smb-users that are not actual local shell users on the linux box. Try
> man smbpasswd and/or it's references for the answer to that.
> (And let us
> know what you find.) I'm sure there's got to be a way to let non-shell
> users connect, i mean, that only makes sense.
There must be a "shell" account (/etc/passwd) in order to use the smbpasswd
account. The Shell account can be disabled, and the password can be
different than the one in /etc/smbpasswd, but the username must match.
The windows account does not need to match, but if configured properly, it
will eliminate a second username/password prompt when the users tries to
access the share on the Samba Server.
The reason for the user in /etc/passwd is that *nix uses the user/group
permissions from the /etc/passwd and /etc/group for file/directory
permissions. Samba itself is not providing the file level security.
Cheers,
Ken
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