Samba users - upgrade

Craig White craig at tobyhouse.com
Fri May 9 19:32:39 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 15:21 -0400, Todd Denniston 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?
----
The only way I could conceive of pulling that off is with winbindd where
the samba account is maintained on some Windows server elsewhere, but no
matter what, samba will need/create a local 'passdb' of some sort.

Craig




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