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Old 04-12-2001
Hi everyone
I export a number of shares from one of my HP-UX machines using samba, however I cannot use the swat (samba web administration tool) at the moment, and I need to urgently add some users.

I know samba references /etc/passwd for users, this isnt the problem they are on the UNIX system, I just need to add them to samba - does anyone know the command line command to add a user? I have looked through the man pages and they just point to swat, I'm hoping there is a command line alternative.

Many thanks for any help.

Regards
alwayslearningunix
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Old 04-12-2001
Try the 'smbusers' file. It is used to map Windows logins to Unix logins. It will be found in your samba installation directory, There should be a man page on it too.
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Old 04-12-2001
I add users to Samba by editing the smb.conf file, normally located in /usr/local/samba/lib/smb.conf. This file (configured properly) and proper UNIX accounts will take care of Samba access. I've never used the smbusers command, so I can't comment.

Perhaps my 'crude' way works only because our server has
a limited number of Samba users. The smbusers file seems like something useful for larger user populations. Sorry, I only run Samba for a very small office, me Smilie

[Edited by Neo on 04-12-2001 at 07:44 PM]
 
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