Glaanieboy
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I have just discovered the awesome power of Samba, a program that runs under *nix (in my case FreeBSD), and uses the SMB protocol to enable Windows users to access shares on *nix servers.
My question is if it's possible to just add an user to Samba, without creating an user in the *nix environment? Now the proper procedure is to add an user in the *nix environment first and then add a Samba user. Alternativily it's possible (or so I understand from a Dutch online manual) to enable the SMBserver to let the user/passwords control at the hands of the workstation. But I don't want to use neither option, because that means I create an useraccount, while I only want an user/password for Samba, nothing else. How can I accomplish that?
My question is if it's possible to just add an user to Samba, without creating an user in the *nix environment? Now the proper procedure is to add an user in the *nix environment first and then add a Samba user. Alternativily it's possible (or so I understand from a Dutch online manual) to enable the SMBserver to let the user/passwords control at the hands of the workstation. But I don't want to use neither option, because that means I create an useraccount, while I only want an user/password for Samba, nothing else. How can I accomplish that?