[Samba] Problem with old version of Samba - 2.2.7a

[Reindl Harald]

Am 04.10.2015 um 14:32 schrieb Frank Millman:
> "Reindl Harald"  wrote in message news:56110F09.9080909 at thelounge.net...
>
> Thanks for the reply Harald, but I am afraid I don’t really understand.
> I am no expert in these matters, so I am not sure of the correct
> terminology.
>
> You talk about 'disabling the shell'. Do you mean create a second
> account for the user, with no Unix password and no login, and use that
> for Samba?

i posted you a line of /etc/password
the last column /sbin/nologin prevents a local login

i think i also explained the connection unix account / samba password 
well and why the behavior you see is expected (need of smbpasswd)

> I can see that that could work, but is it necessary? I am using a much
> later version of Samba (4.2.2) on Fedora 22, and that 'just works'. I
> have a user account that I can log into, and I can access the same home
> directory from Windows using Samba. Are you saying that there was a
> restriction in older versions of Samba that prevented you from doing that?

nobody prevents you from anything but there is no purpose to allow a 
local login on a fileserver which can escape the shares the server offers

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