Samba Users ??

[vfear]

I can see my samba server in network negiborhood within windows but I dont have any samba users created ,, How do I create samba users ?? I am running Red Hat 7.2 ..

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

You just create a regular linux account and then use smbpasswd to set the samba password. Something like :

# /usr/sbin/useradd -s /bin/bash -d /home/user1 -m user1
# passwd user1
# smbpasswd user1


Hope this helps

 

[vfear]

Well when I do that it saiys failed to fint entry for that user. How do I make that user a samba user then change the pw??

Thanks