[Samba] users/passwds

Rodger Haynes rodger at thompsonprint.com
Thu Sep 19 14:54:00 GMT 2002


Note: the mksmbpasswd creates the users in the smbpasswd file that match 
your system users, but it doesn't convert the passwords (at least when I 
did it)  - you then have to go in and enter the passwords using the 
smbpasswd command.

Frank Matthieß wrote:

>Donnerstag den 19.09.2002 um 16:19 CEST  +0200, schrieb P. Jourdan:
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>>Could somebody please explain just how one is supposed to set up samba 
>>users, groups and passwords so connections can be established to Win2k 
>>clients to connect to FBSD samba server for file sharing and to use cups 
>>for printing.
>>
>>I am afraid that the manuals and config files and various examples I have 
>>found on the Internet are quite confusing.
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>>How is the Windows username/passord related to samba access? Must the same 
>>username/password be created with smbpasswd?
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>You have to make sure that you create unix user and groups, that should
>be used by samba/windows client.
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>For the first time it's easier to generate from your actual passwd the
>corresponding smbpasswd:
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>cat  /etc/passwd  |  /usr/sbin/mksmbpasswd  > /etc/samba/smbpasswd
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>>What users/groups need to exist or be created on the Unix machine? Are any 
>>created automatically by samba installation?
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>samba itself runs as root, but switch to the assigned windows/unix user,
>to make sure to access with the correct rights.
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>>What users/groups need to be set up for "guest" access?
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>It's up to you, which unix user would be the "guest". But hopefully not
>"root".
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>>What is the difference between smb.conf entries "public = yes (or no)" and 
>>"guest ok = yes (or no)"?
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>man smb.conf
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>and last but not least:
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>http://www.samba.org/samba/docs/Samba-HOWTO-Collection.html
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