Does each WinAccount need a mirror account on a unix samba server?

[kkrizz]

I'm quite new in setting up a samba server. My job is to set up one on linux for a small office with about 10 windows machines. Each win-user needs a samba share as his home drive.
At the moment, there is no domain controller running, so samba must - for some time - run without, and also without providing the domain-ctrlr by itself, because in near future, there will be one on an extra machine with a windows os.
Do I have to create a linux user account for each planned windows user accessing his samba share?
And does each user have to type in an additional password always when he's first accessing his share?
Would be better without, because he already athenticated when logging in the windows account.

I've tried quite a lot, but to me it seems there are mirror accounts necessairy.

I've also read thread865-1159399 (and many many others , the similarity with my problem is that I'd prefer sth. like user access without predefined unix accounts, but these users should get "private" shares.

Could anyone provide me with a sample smb.conf, which shows me the necessairy sections.

Thanks in advance

 

[clonny2]

Until you have a Domain Controller, then you will need a linux user for each unique windows user that you want to connect. Once you have a domain controller then you can setup connection using winbindd and samba to the domain controller for users / groups access.

 

[kkrizz]

Thank you, this was the thing I didn't understand.

Now that I have tried it with a mirror account, it "suddently" began to work, and a lot of other questions became obsolete.

Thank you very much!