Samba user authentication

[vu pham]

On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 19:17 -0500, David Bandel wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> <rant>
> Why does everything dealing with M$ products have to be so
> aggravatingly, horrorifically frustrating?  What takes 9 seconds to do
> in UNIX takes NiNe HoUrS or more to do in Windoze (if it can be done
> at all).
> </rant>
> 
> I installed Samba on a server.  The client wants to mount the home
> directories on each system to save files to the server (and thus be
> backed up when the WinXP machines crash).  So I want each user to log
> in and mount his home share to save files to.
> 
> I have samba set up with user security.  I have the pam samba file
> created.  I have the home share created.  However, no one can log in
> (encryption is turned on).
> 
> The server is visible.  And selecting it pulls up a login prompt
> (good).  User is on system called SA.  he enters his username and
> password, but gets the login prompt back only with his name filled in:
> SA\eloo.
> 
> Any idea _how_ I get this to work?  Or does M$ have it deliberately
> broken as usual?
> 

I think you have to have each Window user as a  Linux user ( useradd
winusername) and then Samba user ( smbpasswd -a winusername).

Vu