Samba users - upgrade

[max bianco]

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Todd Denniston
<Todd.Denniston at ssa.crane.navy.mil> wrote:
> Craig White wrote, On 05/09/2008 02:12 PM:
>>
>> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 12:30 -0500, Bob Hartung wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>   I have a running install of Redhat 8 that is about to be upgraded.
>
> <SNIP>
>>
>> ----
>>>
>>> 2.  Does every user with acces to the Samba share have to have an account
>>> on the machine proper or can this be accomplished within Samba?
>>
>> ----
>> no - samba requires both a samba and a unix account
>>
> (tangential question caused by answer)
> Craig,
> I (used to) understand that samba _has_ to have a _Unix_account_ on the
> machine to map the samba user too, but does samba now require an explicit
> samba account as well as a system user?  i.e., if I have a Unix account
> 'sucker' and if that is my MS user name too, then samba should just map
> through to the Unix account and password right?
>
I would think you would still run into trouble because the names may
be the same but the SID(security identifiers) are different. At least
with M$, if you delete a user account and then recreate it with the
same name, the computer will still assign a different SID so the
account is different even though its recreated with the same name. I
would think that would apply to Linux\Unix as well.

Max