-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Adam Tauno Williams wrote: >> I got samba 3.0.26a on my Fedora 7, and when i try to add users with >> smbpasswd -a username, it only works if the user exists as a linux >> user... i got a Centos 4.4 system with samba 3.0.10 and it works even >> if the user doesn't exists on the system. >> Can anyone explain me why this happens? is it from this new version >> (3.0.26a) or may be a problem of >> Fedora 7? > > Your configuration on the FC7 box is incomplete, you need an add user > script to setup the user in NSS after which Samba will find the user and > add the Samba attributes. All documented in the Samba docs.
To add to this, the user MUST exist as a Linux user. What the other poster suggests is happening is that the other box is adding a Linux user transparently. - -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer II |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHCo6smb+gadEcsb4RAtpiAJoCKZ8tUPqG4X9ukBmJvmT1G0vmbwCg4Ihl yvQlRP0cPvBADM2iLj5hgIQ= =6lqW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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