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.