samba - Sep 2006 - how to convert root to a samba user

Hi List...

First time posting here, I would like to know the way to convert root to a
samba user, I tried from webmin and didn't work but I am not quite sure the
command console procedure.

Any help will be appreciated.

--Ivan.

Hola Ivan,

The best way is smbpasswd. See man pages for smbpasswd and you can see root
can have a password.

http://es.tldp.org/almacen/Manuales-LuCAS/USANDO-SAMBA/usando-samba-html/nod
e219.html

Best regards,

Edu 

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Subject: [Samba] how to convert root to a samba user

Hi List...

First time posting here, I would like to know the way to convert root to a
samba user, I tried from webmin and didn't work but I am not quite sure the
command console procedure.

Any help will be appreciated.

--Ivan.

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From: "Ivan Arteaga" <iarteaga@cwpanama.net>
To: <samba@lists.samba.org>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:51:05 -0500
Subject: [Samba] how to convert root to a samba user
Hi List...
> First time posting here, I would like to know the way to convert > root
to a
> samba user, I tried from webmin and didn't work but I am not quite >
sure the
> command console procedure.
> Any help will be appreciated.
>--Ivan.
If your password back end is smbpasswd, ( you can check this with
"locate/find smb.conf" and read that file).

then
smbpasswd -a root
< followed by a password for root> 


This password should never be the same as the actual root password!!


regards
Dilip