On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 10:38:55AM -0600, Ric Tibbetts wrote: > Okay, here's my final issue with this installation. I'm hoping > someone can shed some light on it. > > The setup: > > Server: IBM AIX 5.2 > Samba: 3.0.12 > > The problem: > Samba is insisting on having an smbpasswd entry for all users, and it > shouldn't (based on my past experiences). > > I'm setting up a VERY basic samba install. > All it needs to do is enable unix shares to the windows folks. It's > NOT a login server, nor a domain master, etc. > It simply needs to answer requests for shares, and send them out. > From my limited knowledge of this, the process is: > > Request comes in from Windows client (XP-Pro in this case). In this > case, the Windows clients authenticate via an ADS. > Samba receives the request, and checks the username, checking it > against the unix passwds to find a match. > If there is a matching unix ID, then samba will allow the access.
That's not how Samba works. You need to authenticate the incoming password from the client. You can't do this against a UNIX password database, the hashes are incompatible. > This process has never required an smbpasswd file on any other system > I've set it up on. Except this one. I seriously doubt this. I *strongly* recommend you stop working on your computer and go away and read this : http://us2.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/ This should help with some of the underlying concepts. Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba