[CentOS] new CentOS5.1, samba help requested
Ray Leventhal
centos at swhi.net
Wed Mar 26 16:53:00 UTC 2008
John R Pierce wrote:
> Ray Leventhal wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm fighting with samba on a new CentOS 5.1 install.
>>
>> The goal here is to have unix/linux usernames/passwords used for the
>> samba shares (which i'll setup using webmin, as I find it easy that
>> way). At present, the home share and one for the company's public
>> share are in place.
>
>
> # useradd ..... someuser
> # passwd someuser
> new: ....
> again: ...
> # smbpasswd -a someuser
> new: ....
> again: ....
>
> the smbpasswd step is neccessary, because SMB/CIFS protocol uses a
> different hash than /etc/passwd & /etc/shadow, so samba keeps its own
> smbpasswd file.
>
>
Thanks, John
With the help of the fairly slick new webmin (this is a wholly offline
network, so no security issues here), I was able to synchronize the unix
users db with the smbpasswd db so that part's handled.
I managed to mangle my way though the very thorough, if ponderously
long, how-to for configuring a stand-alone server and I think I'm well
on my way :)
Next step is making sure sendmail/dovecot is configured for our little
network. If nothing else, i'm sure learning a lot today!
Kind regards,
-Ray
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