On Thu, October 9, 2008 4:18 pm, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > I have never setup a Samba server, and the recent thread here prompted to > get on this I need to migrate two XP machines from using iSCSI to Samba. > > I thought the "+" preceding a username in the smb.conf file for a > share definition told Samba to use the unix username? Unless I actually > use swat to create and enable the user and take off the + it doesn't work. > > Any ideas what swat does when you create a user through that interface? > > Is there any way to simply force Samba to use locally created users in the > share definition? > > Thanks! > jlc > You use the + operator with authentication with winbind on a windows domain. If you would like to use samba without windows authentication then you can add the user accounts with useradd with the /sbin/nologin option and then add them to samba using the smbpasswd command. Hope this helps. Bo