[Samba] smbpasswd !!?!

[Robert Adkins]

Samba utilizes the UNIX File permissions for telling Windows machines 
who can do what with a file. Due to this, you have a decent User and 
Group set of controls you can place on the files/directories that you 
choose to share with Samba.

 Without having users in the passwd file, Samba wouldn't be able to 
utilize those access rights.

Yeah, it can be a paine, but it does a good job.

If having multiple user account information to track is a pain, may I 
suggest converting to NIS or LDAP for user authentication?

-Rob

Alexander Varga wrote:

>please help me. 
>Why I cannot create a user with smbpasswd without having this username in /etc/passwd???
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>bash-2.05# smbpasswd -a testaccount
>New SMB password:
>Retype new SMB password:
>
>Failed to initialise SAM_ACCOUNT for user testaccount.
>Failed to modify password entry for user testaccount
>bash-2.05#
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>my global in smb.conf
>[global]
>   workgroup = J9_C
>   server string = %h server (Samba %v)
>   dns proxy = no
>   log file = /usr/local/samba/var/log.%m
>   passdb backend = tdbsam smbpasswd
>   invalid users = root
>   passwd program = /bin/passwd %u
>   socket options = TCP_NODELAY
>
>I compilled my samba using 
>./configure --prefix=/usr/local/samba  --with-pam --with-pam_smbpass --with-acl-support
>and made a solaris package.
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