[ILUG] Samba questions

[Dave Airlie]

> 
> I want to authenticate against the unix passwd file, and this works fine
> from NT/Win2K which allows you to specify a username/passwd. However for
> Win95/98 you can only specify a passwd. A workaround is to change your
> windows username & passwd to the same as the unix box, but this is ugly.
> Are there any other ways of doing this with authentication against
> /etc/passwd ?

Yup, samba has a username map feature, man smb.conf, it allows you do
<username> = winusernanme

for a number of users.. usually works fine ....

> Also does anyone know how to log out of a samba share from an NT/2000 box
> so that you can connect to the same samba share again with a different
> username/passwd? So far the only way I've found of doing this is to logoff
> windows, and back on again. Obviously a right pain...

Hmm disconnect all shares on that server? samba uses a single smbd per
connected NetBIOS name I think, so all shares to that server are put
through it... and a single smbd means a single process with a single UID, 

You might be able to do under WinNT (at least), map network drive and set
the connect as box to the username you want to connect as...

Regards,
	Dave.
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