I understand. However, everything you say is much more applicable in a
server/IT/business setting than home use. With my IT Consultant hat on,
you're absolutely right, but with my Home User hat on, it's all
irrelevant. I just want file sharing to work when Samba is installed
*after* user creation w
Thank you for filing this bug in Ubuntu.
Samba needs its own user/password database because essentially the
encryption mechanisms used during windows authentication are different
from what Linux uses.
How and where to store these databases is configurable and there is no
one-size-fits-all solutio