Anne Wilson wrote:
>
>>>
>>> All users that are intended to be able to share have a user account on
>>> the samba server. All users have samba passwords matching their login
>>> passwords, whether in windows or linux. I couldn't even get their home
>>> directories to show using 'user' mode.
>> If they are logged into a windows domain, they will send the domain
>> credentials, like it or not - and you really want the windows login to
>> match the linux name for home directories to work. If you set
>> security = server
>> and
>> password server = your_domain_controller
>> (which I think needs to be resolvable in dns after adding your search
>> domains)
>> everything should just be transparent.
>
> This doesn't really come into it. 99% of the time there are only linux boxes
> on the LAN. Samba is necessary for the odd times when a family windows
> laptop makes a temporary connection. There's certainly nothing like a
> windows domain to consider.
Samba could emulate one, but shouldn't have to. Do all of the windows
login names match (case included) the linux names, and did you use
smbpasswd -a to add all users on the samba side after creating their
linux logins on the current server. I think the password storage format
changed some time back so if you upgraded or copied the setup from an
earlier Centos version the old copy might not work with the new configs.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com