I had an instance where I needed to use smbpasswd -a user_name to add a user to Samba. And I they don't need to be a member of the "samba" group. In my Samba setup experiences anyway.
Hope this helps. On 12/6/05, David Obwaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 12:52:46PM +0200, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > > > I'm trying to setup a samba server on my gentoo system to share a few > > > different > > > directories. I want user authentication, so I can say user A has access > > > to dir > > > nr.1, user B to dir nr.1 and nr.2 etc. and appropriately set permissions > > > on the > > > gentoo server. > > > > > > [smb.conf sample] > > > > > > Can anyone guide me to a correct setup. My research on google and > > > groups.google > > > didn't help me much. > > > > > > > Just off the wall here, but is the david in the samba group? Check if > > not add david to samba goup (/etc/group) and try again. > > I don't have a samba group on my system. Nor do I have smb or similar. > Now, do I have to create samba group in order to run samba on my system? > > David > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
