[Samba] Map multiple NT users to the same Unix user with tdbsam

[Chris Weiss]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Christian Aichinger <Greek0 at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have an NTFS partition on an USB HDD mounted with uid=1000, gid=1000.
> Several users should be able to backup to that partition via Samba shares.
> They should be able to log in each with their own user/pass. I'd rather not
> have a separate unix account (/etc/passwd) for each of them (plus that runs
> into trouble with the uid==gid==1000 problem on the NTFS partition; I'd
> rather not set the whole NTFS disk world-writeable to circumvent that).  And
> I'd really like to avoid ldap, sticking with tdbsam.
>
> What I wish I could do was having multiple user/password combinations on the
> Windows side and map them all to one user on the unix side.
>
> username map looked like the solution, but isn't; quoting the documentation:
> "... for user or share mode security, the username map is applied prior to
> validating the user credentials." Thus AIUI all the users would be required
> to share a password (that of the user they are mapped to).
>
> The only other thing I can think of is using share level security, and
> giving every user one share he can use. Seems possible but suboptimal.
>
> Having something like username map, but with it being applied after
> credential validation would exactly solve my problem (if smbpasswd let me
> create users absent from /etc/passwd).
>
> Is there any way to achieve something like this? Anyone got another solution
> for my scenario?

check out the "force user" and "force group" share options.