[Samba] smbpasswd and /etc/samba/smbusers

Felipe Alfaro Solana felipe.alfaro at gmail.com
Tue May 16 20:28:00 GMT 2006


> You add root and not administrator.  This is by design.
> When in security = user, think of the username map as
> simply an alias file used for authentication requests.
> smbpasswd and pdbedit work below that layer.

You were completely right. I was screwed. Adding "root" via smbpasswd
allows me to authenticate using "smbclient" as "Administrator".

Thanks a lot, Jerry.


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