On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Todd Denniston <Todd.Denniston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Craig White wrote, On 05/09/2008 02:12 PM: >> >> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 12:30 -0500, Bob Hartung wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> I have a running install of Redhat 8 that is about to be upgraded. > > <SNIP> >> >> ---- >>> >>> 2. Does every user with acces to the Samba share have to have an account >>> on the machine proper or can this be accomplished within Samba? >> >> ---- >> no - samba requires both a samba and a unix account >> > (tangential question caused by answer) > Craig, > I (used to) understand that samba _has_ to have a _Unix_account_ on the > machine to map the samba user too, but does samba now require an explicit > samba account as well as a system user? i.e., if I have a Unix account > 'sucker' and if that is my MS user name too, then samba should just map > through to the Unix account and password right? > I would think you would still run into trouble because the names may be the same but the SID(security identifiers) are different. At least with M$, if you delete a user account and then recreate it with the same name, the computer will still assign a different SID so the account is different even though its recreated with the same name. I would think that would apply to Linux\Unix as well. Max -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
