[Samba] Replacing Windows account with local account.

[Gary Dale]

Stephen Carville wrote:
> Stephen Carville wrote:
>> OK, I'm stumped.
>>
>> I have a Samba server (v3.0.20a) with security=DOMAIN and using winbind
>> to authenticate non-local users against a W2K domain controller. This
>> setup happily serves out home directories and about six other shares.
>>
>> I need to add a local UNIX account for a formerly Windows only user.
>> When I try useradd I get: user <username> exists.  This makes sense
>> becasue of winbind.  What I cannot figure out is how 'erase' him so I
>> can create a local user account.  I've read thru the man ages but I
>> can't see how to do this.
>
> I'm thinking I can comment out the windbind in /etc/nswitch.conf, 
> create a unix user, set up the mappng in smbusers, then uncomment 
> winbind. I'll try that Monday.
>
> -- 
> Stephen
>

I believe that simply stopping the winbind daemon for the duration will 
achieve the same thing.