On 2015.02.06 08:04 Jason Sauders wrote: Thanks for the reply.
> One thing to keep in mind is that each samba user must > be a local system user on the box hosting the samba shares. Yes, agreed. > So if you have an Ubuntu box and this Ubuntu box is going to host the > samba shares, and overall you'd like to have a total of 5 samba users, > those 5 samba users must also have a local system account on the Ubuntu > system. Yes, agreed. > Keep in mind if you have 5 Ubuntu system users, but have configured 0 > users for samba, you effectively have 0 users who can access samba. They > are not one in the same and are configured independently (though samba > users require local users to exist to complete the creation process). No. Disagree. As far as I recall, I have never set up separate samba users. > I do not believe the password of Doug on the Windows box has anything to > do with the password of Doug on the Linux box. Yes, but I force them to be the same on my LAN. > I have noticed Windows seemingly tries to use the local user + local > password (local to the Windows box) first as credentials for samba > shares. So if the Windows box is "Doug" with "password123" as the > password to log in to Windows, and you *also* have "Doug" with > "password123" as the samba credentials on the Linux box, the Windows box > will seemingly just "let you in", appearing to use no authentication in > the process, though it actually did authenticate you in that process via > assuming to use the local (to Windows) credentials first. Yes, exactly. And that is what I have been doing for many many years. > The above is of course just my understanding/experience in the past > (which may be gray at this point) of it all. Mine also, because I have had to think about this since as far back as I can remember. Migration from 10.10 to 12.04 to 14.04 all just worked without much (O.K. any) thought. > I encourage other folks > reading this message to correct me if this information isn't correct. Yes, pelase. > Typically I'll add all of my local users to the Ubuntu box first. > Following that, I add them to samba via 'sudo smb passwd -a username'. Yes, I have never done the second step (as far as I recall). Which Is the whole point of the way I have my smb.conf file setup. > Hope this helps! Keep us updated. I will. -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
