On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 15:36, Laurie Brown laurie@brownowl.com wrote:
As for individual users, AFAIK, you need a "normal" Linux user account (and appropriate group membership - see above) and then to add that to Samba using the smbpasswd command. It's essential that the names and passwords are the same.
That's what I thought, but I didn't have them set up on the old server. Odd.
The Linux users don't actually need passwords though; I've been setting them up with: sudo adduser --no-create-home --disabled-password --disabled-login mark sudo smbpasswd -a mark .. and that works fine (obviously Samba needs a password.)
Thanks for the help. I always get in a mess with Samba because it seems very "flexible" in its configuration but I think I now have something workable.