Samba Question -- Users cannot access home directories

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 18:24 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 15:12 -0500, Tim Holmes wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Craig -- the testparam -sv returned the following output and the
> > onscreen display indicated loaded services file OK
> > 
> > I have this feeling that I am in way over my head -- I printed the how
> > to book last night, so as soon as I get done teaching tonight im gonna
> > dive in there and see what I can find, but any help you can supply would
> > be gratefully accepted
> > 
> > My Current SMB.CONF file is appended after the output of the testparam
> > -sv below
> > 
> ----
> You obviously fixed the 'services' issue by using Thomas' stuff
> 
> The problem that you are having with users and passwords is that you
> have to have both Linux users and samba users.
> 
> i.e.
> 
> useradd craig # adds user craig to Linux system
> passwd craig # sets password for user craig on Linux system
> smbpasswd -a craig # adds Linux user craig to samba
> smbpasswd craig # sets samba password for samba user craig

I thought winbind created linux accounts that mapped to the Windows
accounts on the fly as and when they were needed? 

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>