Samba + username with spaces_

HeadTechnican at Mathco.com tech at mathco.com
Thu Nov 15 12:08:38 GMT 2001


I tried it and it works fine..
thanks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-admin at lists.samba.org [mailto:samba-admin at lists.samba.org]On
> Behalf Of Bill Grzanich
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 1:35 PM
> To: tech at mathco.com
> Cc: samba at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re:Samba + username with spaces_
> 
> 
> Hi, Matt.
> 
> in the [global] section of your smb.conf, add the line:
> 
> username map = /some/filename
> 
> where /some/filename is the path to a username map file.  I have 
> mine called /etc/smbusermap.conf.
> 
> In that file, you list the NT names and the corresponding Linux 
> name, like this:
> 
> # Unix_name = SMB_name1 SMB_name2 ...
> root = administrator admin
> nobody = guest pcguest smbguest
> test = "Test User"
> bill = "Bill Gates"
> 
> Notice that you can have multiple NT names match to the same 
> Linux user.  Note, too, that if the NT 
> names are "First Last", with that space between first and last 
> names, you'll need the quotes around 
> the name.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> -Bill
> 
> Original message from: "HeadTechnican @ Mathco.com"
> >How does samba handle NT usernames
> >that contains spaces. Also NT can
> >have long usernames while Linux can
> >only have 8-10 character long usernames.
> >Is there anyway you can map those long
> >usernames to Linux?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >MattB
> >
> >
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