Samba Question -- Users cannot access home directories

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 08:18 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 18:24 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:12 -0500, Tim Holmes wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Craig -- the testparam -sv returned the following output and the
> > > onscreen display indicated loaded services file OK
> > > 
> > > I have this feeling that I am in way over my head -- I printed the how
> > > to book last night, so as soon as I get done teaching tonight im gonna
> > > dive in there and see what I can find, but any help you can supply would
> > > be gratefully accepted
> > > 
> > > My Current SMB.CONF file is appended after the output of the testparam
> > > -sv below
> > > 
> > ----
> > You obviously fixed the 'services' issue by using Thomas' stuff
> > 
> > The problem that you are having with users and passwords is that you
> > have to have both Linux users and samba users.
> > 
> > i.e.
> > 
> > useradd craig # adds user craig to Linux system
> > passwd craig # sets password for user craig on Linux system
> > smbpasswd -a craig # adds Linux user craig to samba
> > smbpasswd craig # sets samba password for samba user craig
> 
> I thought winbind created linux accounts that mapped to the Windows
> accounts on the fly as and when they were needed? 
----
you know it does ;-)

Was op using winbindd? I didn't think so.

swat setups tend to configure it by default and on a single samba setup
with no server to get this info from, it is more complicated for the
administrator to set it up - of course, that is why I pointed op to the
Samba HOWTO.

Craig