[Samba] win2k usernames with spaces

Bradley W. Langhorst brad at langhorst.com
Thu Feb 27 03:48:34 GMT 2003


On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 19:41, maq wrote:
> Hi all,
> 	one of the win2k clients of my network uses an ID with
> one space inside, e.g. "jack smith". I succeeded in creating a
> Linux user with such a name, but have troubles in adding him to 
> the smb users. 
> Any suggestion?
did you try jack\ smith ?
i've never tried this..

another option would be to set up a user mapping 
between jack smith and jack_smith

I think most unix stuff will not deal well with the spaces in the names

brad
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Bradley W. Langhorst <brad at langhorst.com>



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