On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 01:34:23AM -0700, Paul D. DeRocco wrote: > You completely misunderstood my question. I'm asking something much simpler > and more basic than all that. What's an SMB password for, and how does it > relate to a Unix password?
With the Samba password stored on the server a client can convince the Samba server about it's identity. That's called authentication. The Samba password has no relationship at all to the unix password, it is a completely separate thing. > Here's the situation. I have a directory on a machine, and the files in it > are created by a service which runs as root, so the files are owned by root > and only locally accessible to root. I need to make this directory You could set up a normal Samba server, and for this particular share use "force user = root". Be aware this option is pretty dangerous, but it is made for that situation. Volker -- SerNet GmbH, Bahnhofsallee 1b, 37081 Göttingen phone: +49-551-370000-0, fax: +49-551-370000-9 AG Göttingen, HRB 2816, GF: Dr. Johannes Loxen http://www.sernet.de, mailto:kont...@sernet.de -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba