On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:12:12 +0900 FTuzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings all, > I have a bit of a problem whose answer I cannot seem to find anywhere. > > I have a Fedora 5 system with about 300 users and 2 printers. Samba is > running on the sole server. There are also about 2 dozen Windows XP > computers in use, but there is no domain and no Active Directory. All > the computers are standalone. Users desire to use the Samba printers > and access their home directories in the Linux system. > > I have setup and have Samba running fine. Using Webmin, I converted all > Linux users to Samba users. BUT the passwords don't convert. Since > there is no Windows AD or Domain controllers, I cannot do authentication > lookups from some other system since they do not exist. > > I suppose I could make the Linux Samba the Domain Controller, but since > the windows users currently do not log in, I wanted to avoid the extra > work of setting up those systems. > > My quesiton is - how can I convert both the Linux users and their > passwords into one on the Samba Password backends? > > Thank you. > > Frank > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
I've seen some topics about this issue in another Linux lists and it seems that if you DO NOT use shadow passwords in Linux you can a command (or a script, I don't know very well) called mksmbpasswd. A pipe of cat and this "command" could solve the problem (if DO NOT use shadow passwords). I've never tryed that, so I could not warrantise it works, but maybe it could be a starting point. If it do not work you'll indeed have to make all the users type the passwords. Good luck. -- Miguel Da Silva. Servicio de Informatica. Facultad de Ciencias. -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
