[clue-tech] Samba Authentication

[Jed S. Baer]

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:46:35 -0600
David L. Anselmi wrote:

> I got to work some Samba authentication issues.  Samba requires an smb 
> password even if you have an account on the samba machine.  So what's 
> the best way to keep those sync'd (and especially to keep them sync'd 
> with an account on Windows).  AD, I guess.

A bit more detail here? For really basic stuff, i.e. having the Windoze
VM I bring up on occassion read a share on my Linux system, there's no
need for a password. Same for printer shares, last time I had one
running.

The thing is to set 'security = SHARE' in smb.conf. Not sure, but I think
that can go in either the global section, or apply to selectively to any
share where desired.

I got into doing the authentication thing quite a while ago. I imagine
it's changed a bit. Mucking about with smbpasswd.

Probably the easiest way to keep things synched would be to just use LDAP
for everything.

jed