On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 14:44 -0500, Rodrigo De la Pena wrote: > i'm using samba-3.0.20b, > > "did you create the unix user-account aswell ??" > do i have to create the accounts in the OS to use them with mysql? > i create the account "rodelapena" whith its passwd and it failed by > NT_STATUS_BAD_NETWORK_NAME, in theory the authentication worked, but it > wont be necessary to create an OS account to could use it in mysql, am i > wrong??. > > i made the changes to the smb.conf that you suggested me before the > creation of the OS account and authentication failed again.
Yes, all Samba users must exist in the OS. This is why I am mystified by the number of people who want to use MySQL to back Samba :-) I strongly suggest following the pdb_ldap route, and use nss_ldap to provide the users to the OS. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Samba Developer, SuSE Labs, Novell Inc. http://suse.de Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College http://hawkerc.net
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