Samba users - upgrade

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 15:21 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote:
>> (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
> 
You may want to look at the "security = [ads|domain|server]" option 
- if I am reading it correctly, this puts the entire user/password 
validation on another machine. So you would not need a user/password 
database on the local machine. I would think you would still need a 
samba user for the logs and such...

I found a fairly complete description of differences in the smb.conf 
man page under the security option.

Mikkel
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