[Samba] username aliases?

[wes]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Charles Marcus
<CMarcus at media-brokers.com>wrote:

> On 12/18/2008, wes (samba at the-wes.com) wrote:
> > Thanks for the tip. I have entered username map=/etc/samba/users.map into
> > smb.conf, and this is the contents of users.map:
> >
> > wesley=wes
> >
> > but, I am unable to log in with "wes" - it gives me the authentication
> > failed message. I have checked the logs, and it gives the same error as
> if I
> > had entered an incorrect username.
>
> Did you try the other way?
>
> wes=wesley
>
> ?
>
> --
>
> Best regards,
>
> Charles
>

Thank you for your reply.

Yes, I did try both ways, and restarted samba between each attempt with
/etc/init.d/samba restart.

I am running on Ubuntu 8.04, Samba Version 3.0.28a.

-wes