[Samba] Samba using local user/password file

Patrick Topping patrick.topping at hypermediasystems.com
Fri Dec 16 13:27:39 GMT 2005


Gotcha...  Thanks.

-Patrick


On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 21:11 -0700, Craig White wrote:

> The UNIX/Linux system has to have an account in some means whether this
> account is in the flat file /etc/passwd or in LDAP which maps to the
> samba user.
> 
> Craig
> 
> On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 17:14 -0800, Patrick Topping wrote:
> > Craig,
> > 
> > Thanks for the info.  So I am going to need to create an account on
> > the Linux server in order to add the user via smbpasswd right?  Thanks
> > for your help.
> > 
> > -Patrick
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 15:09 -0700, Craig White wrote: 
> > > On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 10:18 -0800, Patrick Topping wrote:
> > > > I am trying to get samba to use its local users and passwords file and
> > > > not the UNIX /etc/password file.  Is this possible?  I would like to be
> > > > able to have users on the samba shares but not in the /etc/password
> > > > file.  If I am trying to do the impossible please let me know...  Thanks
> > > > in advance for any help.
> > > > 
> > > ----
> > > you are trying to do the impossible
> > > 
> > > Craig
> > > 
> 
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