On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 05:02, Felipe S. Elich wrote: > Hello to all: > > First of all, sorry about my poor english. I am spanish :) > I have a debian machine running as a samba file server. The important part > of smb.conf is here: > > security = share > encrypt passwords = true > passdb backend = smbpasswd:/etc/samba/smbpasswd > obey pam restrictions = yes > invalid users = root > passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u > passwd chat = Enter\snew\sUNIX\spassword: %n\n > Retype\snew\sUNIX\spassword: % > n\n . > > I want to create samba users without local unix account. I've tried the > following: > > smbpasswd -a newuser > > This command fails if newuser doesn't exist in local machine > (in /etc/passwd). If the user exist, the smbpasswd -a command runs well. > > How can i create samba users without create local unix users? --- You can't. You can have unix users without a valid shell however.
The closest thing to what you are asking is to map users (mapping smbusers to say 1 or more unix users) but that is entirely a manual process. Craig -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
