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