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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
