Unable to connect to samba share with "force user = unix_user"

Quentin Gibeaux qgibeaux at iris-tech.fr
Wed Oct 15 06:57:46 MDT 2014


On 15/10/2014 14:47, Rowland Penny wrote:
> OK, this is what I expected, when you uncomment the 'force user' line 
> you are trying to force the files to be owned by 'somename', this user 
> is not in AD, hence this is why you are getting 
> 'NT_STATUS_NO_SUCH_USER' . Either do not use the line or change 
> 'somename' to an AD user. 
In facts, i don't understand why it checks in the AD for the user with 
'somename' name.
Anyway, if I try with "force user = root", where root is a unix only 
user : it works, whereas root is not in AD (so should be NO_SUCH_USER, 
right ?).



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