samba and virtual users (no local accounts)

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 01:01 +0000, redhatdude at bellsouth.net wrote:
> 
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: redhatdude at bellsouth.net
> >
> > Hello,
> Is it possible to create a smb user without having to create a system user for 
> > it?
> Using the command smbpasswd -a NewUser fails with error: Failed to modify 
> > password entry for user NewUser.
> I entered "encrypt password = yes" and "smb passwd file = /etc/samba/smbpasswd" 
> > in my smb.conf and still doesn't work.
> > Anyone knows the answer? Please help.
> > EJ
> > 
> 
> Ur?!!! Help, anybody?
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No - a samba user MUST be a posix user also.

Craig