User accounts in SAMBA

One or two things might have to happen.

First the user account should exist in the standard system password files - you would need to add the user to the Unix OS with useradd, vi the appropriate file(s) or some other tool. That first part is only necessary if you are using Samba as User level Security.

Also, if you are using user level security you can point Samba to a password server and you would create the accounts there instead of on the local server.

Now comes the part that must happen no matter what level of security you are using. You must do a smbpasswd -a $user to add the user to the smbpasswd file. Once you issue this command it will ask you to provide a password much like passwd $user would. Make sure this password matches the system password for the user if you are using User level security.

Good luck.

On RedHat v7, you can use the 'smbadduser' command to add SAMBA users. This will update the SAMBA users file, password file and request a password for each added user.

paul

The above answers are correct. This is assuming you are using password encryption for user authentification (which you should).

The smb.conf file is /etc/samba/smb.conf. It was /etc/smb.conf in previous versions of Redhat. For more informationon Samba and setting it up see the Samba section in the CTDP Linux Users Guide at:
http://ctdp.tripod.com/os/linux/usersguide/index.html

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