I've read what I can find about SMB passwords, but I don't get what they are. Are they Unix passwords or an alternative to them? If I have a file share, and the underlying file system requires some sort of credentials to access it, what is the relationship between that and an SMB password?
If a client tries to access the share, using a user account that is listed in the smbpasswd file, does the client have to provide a password that matches the SMB password in order for the server to allow the access, and having done that, does it then not need to know the Unix password? Or is the SMB password the Unix password that the server will use to access the share, so that the client doesn't have to supply a password at all? I don't even understand if the SMB server runs as root, and can therefore access anything, or if it can't access local files unless it is given a password somehow. The smbpasswd(5) and smbpasswd(8) man pages, and everything else I've read, seem to assume that whoever is reading them already knows the answers to these questions. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul mailto:[email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba
