[Samba] FW: desperate help needed - Samba and security = share

[Gaiseric Vandal]

On 01/27/15 04:37, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 January 2015 06:43:13 Andrew Bartlett wrote:
>> You will need to define your 150 users on your server, give them Samba
>> passwords and give them access to those shares via standard unix groups
>> and group permissions on the share folders, or (less preferred) the
>> valid users entry in smb.conf.
>>
>> I hope this helps,
>>
>> Andrew Bartlett
> Hi Andrew,
>
> That is exactly what I don't want to have to do.
>
> The work required initially plus the ongoing maintenance because of the
> turnover in staff here make that unworkable.
>
> I have installed CentOS and now have a version of Samba that still supports
> security = share
>
> I now have my fingers crossed that I can get it working because last time I
> used CentOS I couldn't get Samba to work properly either which is why I
> stayed with Fedora.


So how are the users logging into the computers now?    At some point it 
may just be worth the pain to switch to a domain model?