UNIX username needs to be greater than 8 characters - but can 't b e

Henson Kate Kate.Henson at sentryins.com
Wed Oct 10 11:35:06 GMT 2001


Thank you very much, Don!  That was exactly what I needed.  

Kate

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	MCCALL,DON (HP-USA,ex1) [SMTP:don_mccall at hp.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, October 10, 2001 1:12 PM
> To:	'Henson Kate'; 'samba at lists.samba.org'
> Subject:	RE: UNIX username needs to be greater than 8 characters -
> but can 't b e
> 
> Hi Kate,
> look at the man page for smb.conf, and the parameter "username map".
> this is what you need.
> Hope this helps,
> Don
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henson Kate [mailto:Kate.Henson at sentryins.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 2:05 PM
> To: 'samba at lists.samba.org'
> Subject: UNIX username needs to be greater than 8 characters - but can't
> b e
> 
> 
> I have a user on an NT server that needs to have access to a Samba share
> through a drive mapping.  Unfortunately, the user's NT login name is 13
> characters long, and my AIX server only allows a username up to 8
> characters
> to be created.
> 
> I can't change the NT username.  I know Samba expects you to create a UNIX
> user on the Samba server that matches the NT username.  Is there any way
> to
> create an alternative (8 character name) on the UNIX server and map the 13
> character name to it?  Or, any other possible workarounds for this
> situation?
> 
> We are using Samba 2.0.6 on an AIX 4.2.1 server.  
> 
> Thanks,
> Kate
> 
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