Hello I have a samba server working fine . 50 people will need to have access to the samba server ONLY and not on the Linux host . They way i add users manually now is like this : useradd -d /home/test -s /bin/false -n test then smbpasswd -a test and the user test can log on to Samba server , Now , people tell me that samba can do that by itself so there is no need for a unix account for a user even if it is set to /bin/false , Is there a way that Samba can execute useradd and smbpasswds commands by itself for itself for samba use only? I think not . What do you think? the samba server is a standalone server , not part of a domain thanks