[techtalk] samba help

[Julie]

From: Paul Hardacre <paul.hardacre at btinternet.com>
> One thing to check with Windows connecting to samba is that it uses the
> username from the Client for Microsoft Networks. This one's caught me out
a
> few times. There's a file in /etc/samba that you can use to map samba
users
> to unix users (if you're using the unix passwd file or possibly PAM to
> authenticate samba users), or you can go down the route of using an
> smbpasswd file, or using a PDC to authenticate users. The mapping file is
> /etc/samba/smbusers, they're in the format "unix_user = samba_user1
> samba_user2 samba_userx"

I found that it's apparently not using the /etc/samba/smbusers
file.  I had an entry "jfh = julie".  My Win98 machine was sending
"julie" to my Linux box and Samba insisted that "julie" didn't
exist.  I finally created a "julie" user and set its password with
smbpasswd.

So ... what's wrong with the smbusers file?  This is RedHat 7.1
incase anyone cares.

-- Julie.