Samba and Windows user ids

[Matthew Gillen]

On 4/26/2010 5:04 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 08:59:05AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>>   
>>> Actually, the Linux user names are different from the Windows Names.
>>> Since there are only 7 people in our office, and only 6 or use use
>>> Linux, I don't mind updating the Samba config.
>>>     
> Linux.  So, we are really talking about 2 users (including myself), but
> I only use Windows for my company email, and I want to keep my 3-letter
> Linux user name :-). 

And you can.  The whole point of smbusers is that you can have different
usernames for linux and windows, but on the local filesystem, for the
purposes of keeping permissions correct, they get mapped to the correct
local (linux) name.

>From http://www.nongnu.org/lpi-manuals/lpi-201/html/ch05s02.html:
> Not all users need to be listed in smbusers. Only users with different UNIX and NT names need an alias

HTH,
Matt