Samba and XP SP2 no love

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 07:48 +0900, Information (Erin Hughes) wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 15:20 +0200, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Information (Erin Hughes) wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Mogens Kjaer wrote:
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>..
> >>    
> >>
> >>>>Isn't this either "log level" or "debuglevel" (i.e. without a space)?
> >>>>
> >>>>Mogens
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>cool knew there was bound to be a typo that checkparms didnt.
> >>>will check that
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Hm, I should have read man smb.conf before answering; apparently,
> >>whitespaces are ignored on the left of the = sign.
> >>
> >>With a log level of 10 should give you millions of lines of debug
> >>information in the logfiles.
> >>
> >>- you have remembered to restart samba after having modified
> >>smb.conf? :-)
> >>    
> >>
> >----
> >I am pretty certain that samba re-reads its configuration file every
> >minute or so making it largely unnecessary to restart samba services.
> >That is one of many very cool things that samba developers have done.
> >
> >Craig
> >
> >  
> >
> Hey everyone I was wondering if there is a way to tell if my smb users 
> and my unix users are the same or what they are?
> 
> I know where my unix users are and accourding to my conf file there is
> 
>  username map = /etc/samba/smbusers but when I look in there there is no users only root and admin. my smbpasswd file has user names and passwords. 
> 
> not sure if this is right or not? Any thoughts?
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'Unix' users (posix accounts) are distinct and separate from samba
users. There are all different ways to try to get them into one
container (LDAP probably the most commonly used) but they still have to
have attributes for both posix and samba login.

Craig